Nietzsche's Coming God

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b Did Prometheus first have to imagine having stolen light *
and pay for it before he could finally discover that he had
created light by desiring light, and that not only man but also god
was the work of his own hands and had been clay in his hands?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
In Nietzsche's Coming God, the author demonstrates that the
"destructive" and "nihilistic" side of Nietzsche's thought was in fact
only a hammer that Nietzsche used in order to destroy the "millenarian
lies" of Judeo-Christianity, a necessary — albeit transitory — stage that
preceded his ultimate creation: the Superman, an incarnation of the god
in the making the coming god.
Contrary to popular belief, Nietzsche was both a free spirit and a
deeply spiritual thinker who welcomed the death of the false god — the
god who curses and denies life — not as an end in itself, but as a
prelude to the rebirth of the divine. Indeed, although Nietzsche was an
avowed atheist, he was also "the most pious of the... Tovább

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b Did Prometheus first have to imagine having stolen light *
and pay for it before he could finally discover that he had
created light by desiring light, and that not only man but also god
was the work of his own hands and had been clay in his hands?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
In Nietzsche's Coming God, the author demonstrates that the
"destructive" and "nihilistic" side of Nietzsche's thought was in fact
only a hammer that Nietzsche used in order to destroy the "millenarian
lies" of Judeo-Christianity, a necessary — albeit transitory — stage that
preceded his ultimate creation: the Superman, an incarnation of the god
in the making the coming god.
Contrary to popular belief, Nietzsche was both a free spirit and a
deeply spiritual thinker who welcomed the death of the false god — the
god who curses and denies life — not as an end in itself, but as a
prelude to the rebirth of the divine. Indeed, although Nietzsche was an
avowed atheist, he was also "the most pious of the godless," as he
described himself in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Nietzsche dreamt of, and
augured, a new mode of divinity and a new hope for mankind which,
having rejected both religious obscurantist dogma as well as Cartesian
rationalist dogma, would be in search of eternal self-perfection and
self-overcoming. The death of the god of monotheism thus paved the
way for a new, pantheistic and pagan vision of the divine, heralding a
"god to. come" beyond good and evil, a god who affirms and blesses
life. Nietzsche's coming god is none other than Dionysus reborn, or the
redemption of the divine.
Abir Taha holds a postgraduate degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne,
and is a career diplomat for the government of Lebanon, having previously
served as the Consul at the Lebanese embassy in Paris. A thinker and a
poet as well, she has spent years conducting in-depth research and
analysis into Nietzsche's thought, which has led her to assert the
importance of the spiritual dimension of his philosophy, derived from the
Vedic tradition of India as well as ancient Greek philosophy. Unlike other
Nietzsche scholars, who treat him as a purely secular philosopher, Taha
believes that this spirituality lies at the very heart of his thought. In English
she has previously published Nietzsche, Prophet of Nazism: The Cult of the
Superman (2005) and The Epic ofArya: In Search of the Sacred Light (2009). Vissza