Nihilist poseurs and tiresome decadent rebels?

01-30-2017

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Justin Isis

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Re: Nihilist poseurs and tiresome decadent rebels?

Quote Originally Posted by James

Nietzsche's teachings in particular seem to be championing positive values of self-determination and intellectual freedom when placed in their correct context of a society under religious tyranny.

The society Nietzsche inhabited was relatively permissive. If it hadn't been, he wouldn't have been able to maintain a university position, much less publish his ideas. Actual religious tyranny is where they just kill you. : )

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