Whether I agree with him or not,
I am an admirer of Nietzsche’s God-given genius of uncompromising free thought.
In appreciation of it, I can forgive him all his wild ravings and strange idiosyncrasies...
Almost all, I must say... There is a limit, of course.
I am uncomfortable with
Nietzsche’s attack on the morality of Christianity, but not because I am so
anxious to rise to the defense of a specific religious practice, but rather for
the larger reason that no one, not even he (Nietzsche) can so casually dismiss
an existing source of absolute morality, even if it happens to be
heavily polluted as it were, without offering a viable alternative, and it is
here where Nietzsche is demonstrably and unequivocally wanting. Indeed, his
food for thought is ambrosial, but where is his nourishment for hope? To him,
hope is a lie, yet to him, too, truth kills. How is human society supposed to
sustain its life then? Not by Nietzsche’s reason alone. Not by anybody’s
reason alone. Pure reasoning turns deadly and divisive without the
life-saving true fiction of unquestioning philosophical postulates and categorical
imperatives. Welcome back, Kant!
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