Nietzsche is often understood as the anti-thesis of Christianity. His writings "Antichrist", "The genealogy of morals", "homosexual science" etc are testimonies of this. He was the "profet" of nihilism and is the most important figure (besides Heidegger and Kant) for the post modernist philosophies. ANy way, he said many interesting and true things. He predicted that the 20 th century would be the bloodiest, the triumph of nihilism. And partially he welcomed this, because this would be the triumph for the "superman". Nietzsches superman is totally against the concept of orthodox humility. Niezche must be refuted and nihilism with him. Here I just want to quote another side of his complex personality. This is my favourite quote of my "enemy-philosopher":
Now how does the philosopher see the culture of our time? Naturally quite differently than those philosophy professors who are happy with their state. When he thinks of the universal haste and the increasing speed with which things are falling, of the cessation of all contemplativeness and simplicity, it almost seems to him as if he were seeing the symptoms of a total extermination and uprooting of culture. The waters of religion are ebbing, and they are leaving behind swamps or ponds; the nations are again separating from one another in the most hostile manner, and they are trying to rip each other to shreds. The sciences, without any measure and pursued in blindest spirit of laissez faire, are breaking apart and dissolving everything which is firmly believed; the edified classes and states are being swept along by a money economy which is enormously contemptible. Never was the world more a world, never was it poorer in love and good. The educated classes are no longer lighthouses or sanctuaries in the midst of all this turbulent secularization; they themselves become more turbulent by the day, more thoughtless and loveless. Everything, contemporary art and science included, serves the coming barbarism.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations ´Schopenhauer as Educator´, (Cambridge University Press, 1983, sid 148-149).
