Nietzsche and the beatitude of the practical evangelical as sign of the immanence - DOI: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v31i1.6065

Abstract

This text focuses on the analysis of Nietzsche concerning the idea of beatitude as presented in The Antichrist, and how this religious experience is based on an immanent axiology. Certainly the most surprising element of this perspective lies in the fact that Nietzsche, a philosopher contrary to the axiological parameters of instituted Christian morality, evidences the presence of affirmative and jubilant elements in the gospel practice of Jesus, a ‘free spirit’. Nietzsche interprets the idea of ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ as an experience of the heart, a state of beatitude resulting from the understanding of the effective unit between man and the divine, devoid of any moral determination. Moreover, as detected by Nietzsche, the idea of pain in the originating Christic existence, instead of combining with a depreciation of existence as done by Christian morality, actually represents its more significant approval. Under these circumstances, the ‘Christian’ dogma is based on an anti-Christic valuation – a situation that, along with Nietzschian writing, we propose as the theme of this writing.