Weltgeist | Why Jesus Isn't a Hero | Nietzsche @WeltgeistYT | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
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▶ The Antichrist: youtu.be/qej1Z8Qzq_c
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
01:24 The psychology of the Saviour
05:48 Ernest Renan
13:42 The Kingdom of God is within you
Despite Nietzsche's final work of philosophy carrying the title of 'Antichrist', this work is remarkably positive about Christianity's central figure: Jesus Christ. Reading the book, it quickly becomes clear that the title refers to being anti-Christian rather than being anti-Jesus, because Nietzsche speaks in terms of admiration for Jesus.
He blames the early Christians (the Apostles, and Paul specifically) of distorting Christ's message for their own political and social gain, introducing elements of ressentiment and will to power that were simply absent from Jesus's life and teachings.
This video looks at a passage in the Antichrist in which Nietzsche claims that Jesus was not a hero nor a genius. It's a reaction to Ernest Renan, a historian of religion who played a central role in what theologians now call the "quest for the historical Jesus." A period in history during which scholars looked at the Gospels through the historical, not the theological, lens. It was a movement that sought to demystify the Gospels and separate fact from legend. Studying the Gospels as you would any other historical text, by critically examining its sources and internal contradictions.
Renan, in his best-selling and hugely influential biography of Jesus, ascribed heroic qualities to Jesus (while also denying his divinity and ability to perform miracles.)
Nietzsche accuses Renan of being a lackluster psychologist and furthermore that to call Jesus a hero is simply a mistake.
He then proceeds to give his own account of Jesus's psychological profile: claiming that the undistorted message of Jesus is one of asceticism, a new mode of being, free from resentment, a superabundance of love -- quite the opposite of what later Christians would make of his life when they sought to claim some sort of victory over their Roman oppressors and introduced ideas like Heaven or the claim that the Kingdom of God is some sort of other world which will come to pass in a future time in a spiritual place.
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WATCH:
▶ The Antichrist: youtu.be/qej1Z8Qzq_c
OUR ANALYSES:
▶ Beyond Good and Evil: youtu.be/WIHXZUltfqk
▶ The Antichrist: youtu.be/qej1Z8Qzq_c
▶ Genealogy of Morals: youtu.be/6PUx4cOfFcI
▶ Twilight of the Idols: youtu.be/YpVr_NEvWYA
▶ The Will to Power: youtu.be/He6ZC7ZFBt8
▶ Daybreak: youtu.be/cOL2z7nuXdA
▶ The Joyful Science: youtu.be/U0fTBOJ-C_I
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
01:24 The psychology of the Saviour
05:48 Ernest Renan
13:42 The Kingdom of God is within you
Despite Nietzsche's final work of philosophy carrying the title of 'Antichrist', this work is remarkably positive about Christianity's central figure: Jesus Christ. Reading the book, it quickly becomes clear that the title refers to being anti-Christian rather than being anti-Jesus, because Nietzsche speaks in terms of admiration for Jesus.
He blames the early Christians (the Apostles, and Paul specifically) of distorting Christ's message for their own political and social gain, introducing elements of ressentiment and will to power that were simply absent from Jesus's life and teachings.
This video looks at a passage in the Antichrist in which Nietzsche claims that Jesus was not a hero nor a genius. It's a reaction to Ernest Renan, a historian of religion who played a central role in what theologians now call the "quest for the historical Jesus." A period in history during which scholars looked at the Gospels through the historical, not the theological, lens. It was a movement that sought to demystify the Gospels and separate fact from legend. Studying the Gospels as you would any other historical text, by critically examining its sources and internal contradictions.
Renan, in his best-selling and hugely influential biography of Jesus, ascribed heroic qualities to Jesus (while also denying his divinity and ability to perform miracles.)
Nietzsche accuses Renan of being a lackluster psychologist and furthermore that to call Jesus a hero is simply a mistake.
He then proceeds to give his own account of Jesus's psychological profile: claiming that the undistorted message of Jesus is one of asceticism, a new mode of being, free from resentment, a superabundance of love -- quite the opposite of what later Christians would make of his life when they sought to claim some sort of victory over their Roman oppressors and introduced ideas like Heaven or the claim that the Kingdom of God is some sort of other world which will come to pass in a future time in a spiritual place.
