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The Study Of Nietzsche's Early Religion And Enlightenment To Modern Society

Posted on:2012-03-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X F ShangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330368998974Subject:Ideological and political education
Abstract/Summary:
Christian history is one of the most important part in Western philosophy history. By rapid reforms and renaissances, it evolved from paganism to authority of faith. In the Middle Ages,Christian developed to its peak, then began to decline, which is mainly manifested in several aspects.On the one hand,the development of productive forces,especially the rise of science and technology made people break away from a completely state of natural control. The strengthening of development capacity led human beings to be more self-confident. In some times, people even had a kind of elusion that they could understand and master everything that they did. In this case,the worship of gods is less than that in ancient days. On the other hand, Christian was so decaying that it can't be endured by people. It become nothing expect of material exploitation and mental oppression,and its function of comforting spirit had disappeared.In 17th century,Renaissance raised,which mainly fought against the form of religion but not shaved the base of Christian. Then Enlightenment appeared which criticized worship of Christian and the church. It proposed a definition of rationalism to deny the exist of God. But rationalism aroused another problem,namely--the oppression of human's nature. In the 19th century, people became more puzzled. Scientific development had a qualitative leap. Science and invention were applied to wider range of social production. The big machines had not only changed the way of life but also the way of thinking. Further declining of religion authority made the collapse of Christian become necessary. At the key point, Nietzsche appeared. He is both a critics of Christian belief and a creator of new age.He received strict Christian education,but this premature youngster had not believed gods so much as others. He loves Greek poets,Bach,Beethoven,and Byronic. He studied Hlderlin,Emerson. There is no doubt that the thoughts of Hlderlin,Friedrich and Byronic appealed him so much. At the time of his ceasing to believe Christian,he began a more difficult career---- self-formation. Influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson,he wrote《History and Fate》which were his first attempt in philosophy field. He proposed his doubt about religion: how would the world become if there were no God,no immortality,no Biblical authority? How would the world extend for if the faith of thousand years was just built on imagination? How would the world change if human were just misled by a kind of illusion? But thoughts like this made the young Nietzsche thrill,he though he may be too adventurous, he couldn't make sure whether he could made right judgment by his dysphasia mind. This kind of feeling made him uneasy, and forced his to go back normal orbit. Under this circumstance,he re-settle reconciliation between his self-formation and Christian.The paper pays attention to the thought of his younger age and the relationship between his thought and his ages. In the process of the study,the author based on the paper of Fate and History, and depended on the Philosophy at his time as the theoretical background. From the view of Nietzsche's thinking development process, the early Reformation thought inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth century played a very important part in the early stage of Nietzsche's philosophy. As a philosopher deeply affected by the philosophy at that time,he was possible to develop pluralistic ideas. The author put the study focus on his early philosophical thinking just because in this time,his opinion was in embryonic period,which was not mature and complete compared with his latter thought. But we can't obliterate the independence of his early thinking. In this period,he has formed his philosophy opinion primarily and laid the foundation of his latter philology thought. His thought in early times also makes it necessary for us to study the process of the formation of Nietzsche's philosophical thinking from multi-angle perspectives.In the process of his early thought,he affected by different culture and thoughts. It is hard to rebuild his belief. For today society, people face the same situation because they shocked by so many new thoughts and ideas, so they are confused with what they faced. Government is responsible for leading people'thought to the healthy way so that our culture and faith are consistency.
Keywords/Search Tags:Nietzsche, Christian, Enlightenment to Modern Society
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