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Intro. Friedrich Nietzsche (NEE-chuh, not NEE-chee) was a German philosopher of the 19 th century who today is one of the Western tradition’s most controversial figures. He launched blistering attacks on Christian morality and the stultifying way of life that he saw as its logical consequence.
Jun 21, 2021 · And then, by using Nietzsche’s book Thus Spoke Zarathustra, this paper will explain how Nietzsche and Gautama Buddha, drew many of the same conclusions and observations to life’s natural chaos: that much of life leads to suffering and this is what needs to be overcome. Nietzsche’s Ubermensch
Antoine Panaïoti's Nietzsche and Buddhist Philosophy takes first place as the best book of my reading year. Beautifully written, a heroic feat of erudition, and an intimate and sympathetic reading of both Nietzsche and classical Buddhist philosophy, this book enacts the ideal whose contours it seeks to define and celebrate in its twin subjects - the ideal of great health that overcomes the ...
- Antoine Panaïoti
- 2012
According to Nietzsche, the practice of Buddhism is a way to a happy life: 'The practice of Christianity is not a phantasm, as little as the practice of Buddhism is: it is a means to be happy.'
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Nietzsche’s Dionysian life-affirmation and Buddhist life-negation, arguing for a novel, hybrid response to the challenge of formulating a tenable post-nihilist ethics. His book will interest students and scholars of Nietzsche’s philosophy, Buddhist thought, and the meta-physical, existential, and ethical issues that emerge with the demise of
The Perfection of Wisdom sutras upon which Maezumi’s Mahayana Buddhism was founded stress the idea that the capacity to tolerate the truth about oneself and the world—to set aside self-placating delusions and face the way things really are—is absolutely essential to the awakening of freedom in life. Nietzsche frequently wrote that one ...
672 BENJAMIN A. ELMAN. ism itself is guilty of nihilism cannot help but shed light on the place of nihilism in Nietzsche's philosophy.2. This claim is not argued on the basis of Nietzsche's explicit attacks on Buddhism along with Christianity as nihilistic religions (Nietzsche, AC, 20) or because an analysis of Buddhism by comparison will help us.
