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Jesus or Nietzsche

How Should We Live Our Lives?

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Av Raymond Angelo Belliotti

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This book reconstructs the cornerstones of Jesus’s moral teachings about how to lead a good, even exemplary, human life. It does so in a way that is compatible with the most prominent, competing versions of the historical Jesus. The work also contrast Jesus’ understanding of the best way to lead our lives with that of Friedrich Nietzsche. Both Jesus and Nietzsche were self-consciously moral revolutionaries. Jesus refashioned the imperatives of Jewish law to conform to what he was firmly convinced was the divine will. Nietzsche aspired to transvalue the dominant values of his time —which themselves were influenced greatly by Christianity— in service of what he took to be a higher vision. The interplay of these radical versions of the good human life, seasoned with critical commentary emerging from modern findings in the sciences and humanities, opens possibilities and lines of inquiry that can inform our choices in answering that enduring, paramount question, “How should we live our lives?”

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-01-01
Mått155 x 235 x 13 mm
Vikt399 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEthical Theory and Practice
Antal sidor238
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789042036598

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Raymond Angelo Belliotti is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He has published thirteen other books including Justifying Law (1992), Good Sex (1993), What is the Meaning of Human Life? (2001), Happiness is Overrated (2004), Dante’s Deadly Sins (2011), and Shakespeare and Philosophy (2012). Belliotti has received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, the William T. Hagan Young Scholar/Artist Award, the Kasling Lecture Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship, and the SUNY Foundation Research and Scholarship Recognition Award.

Editorial Foreword by Olli LoukolaPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionIntroductionNietzsche’s LifeProblems of Interpretation in NietzscheMy (Mis)Interpretation of NietzscheJesus: The Nature of Our World and Our Mission in ItFamily RelationsAssociating and Identifying with UndesirablesUnsettling Established RitualsInterrogating Prevailing Norms of Just DistributionMaterial MinimalismJesus and the Concept of ForgivenessNietzsche: The Nature of Our World and Our Mission in ItPerspectivismGenealogical CritiquesCrafting a Worthy SelfValuesNietzsche’s Glad TidingsMaster and Slave MoralitiesGoing Beyond Good and EvilEternal RecurrencePhilosophy and PsychologyStyle and RhetoricTragic View of LifeJesus and NietzscheFundamental Understandings of Human Beings: Unconditional Love and the Will to PowerThe Power of Unconditional LoveThe Paradoxes of Agapic LoveParental AgapeThe Will to PowerThe Last Man and The OvermanNietzsche on JesusNietzsche on St. Paul and ChristianityNietzsche’s Understanding of JesusJesus and Engagement in this WorldDaunting Normative IdealsThe Perfectionism of JesusPerfectionism and Unconditional LoveExtending Unconditional LoveUnconditional Love and AbstractionA Summary of the Perfectionism of JesusThe Ethic of Jesus and Contemporary PhilosophyJesus’ Enduring MessageThe Perfectionism of NietzscheNietzsche’s VisionAristocratic PrivilegeA Summary of the Perfectionism of NietzscheThe Perfectionism of Nietzsche and Contemporary PhilosophyJesus and Nietzsche: Toward a SynthesisNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

A subtle interpreter of both Jesus and Nietzsche. … Belliotti writes well and with conviction, and it is a refreshing to see a commentator who, where appropriate, confronts and criticizes not just Nietzsche but also Jesus forthrightly. … recommended to both Nietzsche scholars and theologians, as well as a wider range of readers who simply seek to improve their lives. Religious Studies. Volume 50 (2014)