Nietzsche’s Views Aligned with Buddhism: Is Nietzsche’s Ubermensch a Buddha?

The concept and practice of Nietzsche’s Ubermensch could be shown to be either one in the very same or nearly all too similar to the philosophies of Buddhist teachings, as Nietzsche indicates many comparable ideas on intricate Buddhist concepts. First, it is important to define both what Nietzsche’s ideas of the Ubermensch were as well as some of the basic principles in Buddhism to show … Continue reading Nietzsche’s Views Aligned with Buddhism: Is Nietzsche’s Ubermensch a Buddha?

A Review of Nietzsche’s Antichrist: The Retelling of Christian History

The Nihilism that Nietzsche attempted to explain is not too similar to that of others before and after him. In his book, The Antichrist, Nietzsche describes Christianity as a type of Nihilism in itself: that Christians look up onto others for their own meaning to life and without their salvation then they are meaningless sinners, and with salvation, they can be meaningful members in a … Continue reading A Review of Nietzsche’s Antichrist: The Retelling of Christian History

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: On the Sheep and Shepherd

“The overman shall be the meaning of the earth,” the overman is the most creative, the most free from impurities, the most free from good and evil. An analogy of Man is that he is a rope stretching from animal to ubermensch, or overman or superman, one who is constantly in practice of reaching his final form, with constant hints of self-sacrifice in order to … Continue reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra: On the Sheep and Shepherd