Nietzsche, Christianity, And The Misunderstanding Of Jesus...

Nietzsche, Christianity, and the Misunderstanding of Jesus In the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, there is perhaps no group of people that is criticized more than Christians and the Christian Church. While Nietzsche shows a great aversion for western philosophy in general, one could certainly make the argument that his critiques against Christianity are just as equally as incisive, if not more. This comes across perhaps most clearly in his work, entitled The Anti-Christ, in which Nietzsche offers us a look into the beliefs of Christianity and its central figure, Jesus Christ, as well as the ways in which he believes Christians fail. It is important to recognize these shortcomings, but it is equally important to investigate the emotional tool they use, termed ressentiment, that rises from their misunderstanding of Jesus. Christians, according to Nietzsche, through their progression in ressentiment misunderstand Jesus through his death and teachings. In order to understand these things, we must first investigate the lens through which Christians understand Christ, namely ressentiment. The process of ressentiment begins with the establishment of a master and slave morality. The development of this concept is best explained by Nietzsche in his Genealogy of Morals: â€Å"everywhere ‘noble’, ‘aristocratic’, in social terms is the basic concept from which, necessarily, ‘good’†¦ developed: a development that always runs parallel with that other one which ultimately transfers ‘common’,Show MoreRelatedNietzsche s On The Genealogy Of Morals1668 Words   |  7 Pageschose to expand my ideas and compare them to Friedrich Nietzsche’s first essay in â€Å"On the Genealogy of Morals.† Nietzsche first debunks the ideas of Nietzsche sees two types of morality at play creating these original definitions of good bad and evil, master morality and slave morality. I will also use Nietzsche’s concept of â€Å"will to power† to evaluate each of these ideas. Nietzsche believes that the will to power is the force that pushes humankind. To clarify for my readers, I’m looking to separate