h-H comments on Strategies for dealing with emotional nihilism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: h-H 16 October 2010 02:03:35AM *  0 points [-]

this is tangential to the thread; but Nietzsche's writings frequently seem to be quite religious actually, take his Übermensch theme for e.g., which makes the absolute/divine/god/etc become part of man, a theme prevalent in Christianity as well.

Comment author: orthonormal 17 October 2010 08:57:27PM 0 points [-]

Well, he was going insane by the time of his later writings (especially by the point of Ecce Homo, which still contains some brilliance); and furthermore, Zarathustra (where some of the least rationalist quotes come from) was intentionally written in a religious style. But the point is otherwise well taken.