Nietzsche, Insight and Immorality

March 1995

“Nietzsche, Insight and Immorality,” Zadok Occasional Paper S95, 1998.

I introduce Nietzsche’s critique of religious belief, for an audience of thinking Christians. I show that his criticism cannot and ought not be simply shrugged off, but rather, it can form the basis of a useful self-critique for the religious believer. I also argue that any response to a Nietzschean critique of religious belief and practice must itself take the form of an embodied believing life, rather than a merely theoretical response.

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