Jesus or Nietzsche : how should we live our lives?
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Jesus or Nietzsche : how should we live our lives?
(Value inquiry book series, v. 259 . Ethical theory and practice / Olli Loukola,
Rodopi, 2013
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Bibliography: p. [219]-224
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Description and Table of Contents
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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?"
Table of Contents
Editorial Foreword by Olli Loukola
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Introduction
Nietzsche's Life
Problems of Interpretation in Nietzsche
My (Mis)Interpretation of Nietzsche
Jesus: The Nature of Our World and Our Mission in It
Family Relations
Associating and Identifying with Undesirables
Unsettling Established Rituals
Interrogating Prevailing Norms of Just Distribution
Material Minimalism
Jesus and the Concept of Forgiveness
Nietzsche: The Nature of Our World and Our Mission in It
Perspectivism
Genealogical Critiques
Crafting a Worthy Self
Values
Nietzsche's Glad Tidings
Master and Slave Moralities
Going Beyond Good and Evil
Eternal Recurrence
Philosophy and Psychology
Style and Rhetoric
Tragic View of Life
Jesus and Nietzsche
Fundamental Understandings of Human Beings: Unconditional Love and the Will to Power
The Power of Unconditional Love
The Paradoxes of Agapic Love
Parental Agape
The Will to Power
The Last Man and The Overman
Nietzsche on Jesus
Nietzsche on St. Paul and Christianity
Nietzsche's Understanding of Jesus
Jesus and Engagement in this World
Daunting Normative Ideals
The Perfectionism of Jesus
Perfectionism and Unconditional Love
Extending Unconditional Love
Unconditional Love and Abstraction
A Summary of the Perfectionism of Jesus
The Ethic of Jesus and Contemporary Philosophy
Jesus' Enduring Message
The Perfectionism of Nietzsche
Nietzsche's Vision
Aristocratic Privilege
A Summary of the Perfectionism of Nietzsche
The Perfectionism of Nietzsche and Contemporary Philosophy
Jesus and Nietzsche: Toward a Synthesis
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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