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HoneydewInMyAss t1_j437dy0 wrote

Reply to comment by DeviceFickle970 in Nietzsche is better understood as the Father of Psychoanalysis than Existentialism; his philosophy has two components: the diagnosis of our culture's Decadence (under the Ascetic Ideal) and a prescription for health in the Dionysian Counter-Ideal by thelivingphilosophy

Whaaat?

No, I disagree

Kierkegaard looked as the existential emptiness of modern life and wanted to turn back...which is silly.

You can't stop progress, that's like trying to paddle against the current

Nietzche said fuck God, God is dead, paddle WITH the current! Become God.

Nietzche's work has actual impact, and is a good framework for the modern man.

I don't think Kierkegaard's answers are real answers to modern people.

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anti--climacus t1_j43fb0f wrote

They're a lot less different than you'd think. Nietzsche wants you to become God, Kierkegaard wants you to look within and find God already there

Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche would suggest that one "paddles with the current", both suggest a revolt against modern man to become something neither modern nor past

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xxBURIALxx t1_j43kj67 wrote

This is spot on, kierkegaard was the first western non-dualist.

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GrandMast33r t1_j43g25r wrote

I think you’re fundamentally misunderstanding Kierkegaard’s philosophy if that was your takeaway. He was reacting to record social mobility at the time in his home of Denmark; and wanted to try and convince people in his community to not be impressionable and beholden to other people’s systems of morals and ethics. Instead, he wanted people to pursue understanding of their innermost desires and ambitions, regardless of whether they were popular or considered morally or ethically right (hence: the “teleological suspension of the ethical”).

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xxBURIALxx t1_j43kpig wrote

The lily and the lily of the filed refutes you

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