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Religion: Religion is a system of beliefs and practices that relate humanity to spirituality and moral values. Many religions have organized communities of believers and some have sacred texts or scriptures. Some religions have no formal organization or sacred texts. See also Religious belief, Theology, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Word of God, God, Bible, Bible criticism.
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Friedrich Nietzsche on Religion - Dictionary of Arguments

Danto III 201
Religion/Slave Moral/Master Moral/Morality/Nietzsche/Danto: the slave fears not only the malice of the master and plays it up: he resents the strength of the master as well as his own relative powerlessness.
He cannot act out his hostility on the paths open to the aristocrats. Slave's strategy: to get the master to accept the slave's list of values and to judge himself from the slave's perspective. Eventually, the master becomes evil in his own eyes.
Danto: the revaluation of values is made possible by the work of religion. Religion was the reason why the strong were bent under the yoke of a limited number of doctrines, which they had to endure cruelly. Religion acted as a means of revenge that the unwilling humbly took hold of. When he was still powerful, the aristocrat had always held something else in high esteem.
Danto III 202
Through his behavior, the aristocrat initially showed contempt for the worldview of the (Christian) religion and for the intentions of the priestly resentment.
>Christianity/Nietzsche
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Now the priests are the worst enemies because they are the most powerless.(1) They cultivate the resentment to its highest degree. Their revaluation of values is ultimately an act of spiritual revenge.(2)
Danto III 221
Religion/Tradition/Danto: many religions claim that we stand before our God as an offspring before their father, claiming that we owe everything we have or are to the divine creator.
>God/Nietzsche.
Danto III 222
Nietzsche: In the birth of the tragedy, Nietzsche develops the idea that the Greek Olympus was invented to alleviate suffering, not to contribute to it in the way that the Christian concept of God has done in the face of human suffering - to reinforce man's will to find himself guilty.(3)
Danto III 231
Religion/Nietzsche/Danto: The ascetic ideals are only illustrated by religious life; and religion itself is only illustrated by what one calls religions in the colloquial language. There are forms of religion in the broader sense, which are antireligious in the narrower sense. A person may be religious in the broader sense and antireligious in the narrower sense, if he/she casts doubt on religion in the name of something else; be it reason, science, historical criticism or truth. By adhering to such higher goals, people become disguised ascetics, personae of the religious impulses that only occasionally manifest themselves in real religious forms.(4)
Danto III 232
Science/Belief/Religion/Nietzsche/Danto: In the Gay Science Nietzsche asks in 1886 to what extent we are still pious. The answer is that we are pious insofar as we continue to believe in the truth.(5)
Nietzsche: You can see that science is also based on the belief that there is no science without preconditions.(6)
Danto: According to Nietzsche, it is necessary for science that there is an order and a reality which it must try to discover.
>Science/Nietzsche.
Nietzsche:.... in so far as he affirms this 'other world', does he not have to deny his counterpart, this world, our world...? .... Then it is still a metaphysical belief on which our belief in science is based.... Plato's belief that God is the truth, that the truth is divine...(7)
>Truth/Plato, >God/Plato.

1. F. Nietzsche, Zur Genealogie der Moral, KGW VI. 2, p. 280.
2. Ibid. p. 281
3. Ibid. p. 348f).
4. F. Nietzsche Jenseits von Gut und Böse, VI. 2, p. 429f.
5. F. Nietzsche Die Fröhliche Wissenschaft, KGW V. 2, p. 256.
6. Ibid. p. 257.
7. Ibid. p. 259

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Nie I
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe Berlin 2009

Nie V
F. Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil 2014

Danto I
A. C. Danto
Connections to the World - The Basic Concepts of Philosophy, New York 1989
German Edition:
Wege zur Welt München 1999

Danto III
Arthur C. Danto
Nietzsche as Philosopher: An Original Study, New York 1965
German Edition:
Nietzsche als Philosoph München 1998

Danto VII
A. C. Danto
The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (Columbia Classics in Philosophy) New York 2005


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