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The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche.

The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche.

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 The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche.
A work of Nietzsche's later years, The Antichrist was written after Thus Spoke Zarathustra and shortly before the mental collapse that incapacitated him for the rest of his life. The work is both an unrestrained attack on Christianity and a further exposition of Nietzsche's will-to-power philosophy so dramatically presented in Zarathustra.Christianity, says Nietzsche, represents "everything weak, low, and botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism towards all the self-preservative instincts of strong life." By contrast, Nietzsche defines good as: "All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? -- All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? -- The feeling that power is increasing, that resistance has been overcome."In attempting to redefine the basis of Western values by demolishing the formative influence of the Judeo-Christian tradition, The Antichrist has proved to be highly controversial and continuously stimulating to later generations of philosophers.Copyright Popular Culture and Religion.
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  • 08 - 54-62 (Final rant). The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche.

    08 - 54-62 (Final rant). The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche.
    Feb 3 2026
    08 - 54-62 (Final rant). The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche.
    Save for his raucous, rhapsodical autobiography, Ecce Homo, The Antichrist is the last thing that Nietzsche ever wrote, and so it may be accepted as a statement of some of his most salient ideas in their final form. Of all Nietzsche’s books, The Antichrist comes nearest to conventionality in form. It presents a connected argument with very few interludes, and has a beginning, a middle and an end. The reason to listen to this version is that H.L. Mencken, the famous journalist, turned Nietzsche's German into such direct, plain-spoken American English that it puts the haranguing philosopher right up in your face.
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    42 mins
  • 07 - 48-53 (Old Testament). The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche.

    07 - 48-53 (Old Testament). The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche.
    Feb 3 2026
    07 - 48-53 (Old Testament). The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche.
    Save for his raucous, rhapsodical autobiography, Ecce Homo, The Antichrist is the last thing that Nietzsche ever wrote, and so it may be accepted as a statement of some of his most salient ideas in their final form. Of all Nietzsche’s books, The Antichrist comes nearest to conventionality in form. It presents a connected argument with very few interludes, and has a beginning, a middle and an end. The reason to listen to this version is that H.L. Mencken, the famous journalist, turned Nietzsche's German into such direct, plain-spoken American English that it puts the haranguing philosopher right up in your face.
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    22 mins
  • 06 - 43-47 (New Testament). The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche.

    06 - 43-47 (New Testament). The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche.
    Feb 3 2026
    06 - 43-47 (New Testament). The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche.
    Save for his raucous, rhapsodical autobiography, Ecce Homo, The Antichrist is the last thing that Nietzsche ever wrote, and so it may be accepted as a statement of some of his most salient ideas in their final form. Of all Nietzsche’s books, The Antichrist comes nearest to conventionality in form. It presents a connected argument with very few interludes, and has a beginning, a middle and an end. The reason to listen to this version is that H.L. Mencken, the famous journalist, turned Nietzsche's German into such direct, plain-spoken American English that it puts the haranguing philosopher right up in your face.
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    21 mins
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