AFFIRMATIONS AFTER GOD: FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE AND RICHARD DAWKINS ON ATHEISM

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作者：

Howe, J. Thomas ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Regis Coll, Denver, CO 80221 USA

来源：

ZYGON | 2012年 / 47卷 / 01期

关键词：

aesthetics; argument from design; atheism; beauty; Darwinism; Richard Dawkins; materialism; naturalism; Nietzsche; science;

D O I：

10.1111/j.1467-9744.2011.01243.x

中图分类号：

D58 [社会生活与社会问题]; C913 [社会生活与社会问题];

学科分类号：

摘要：

. In this essay, I compare the atheism of Friedrich Nietzsche with that of Richard Dawkins. My purpose is to describe certain differences in their respective atheisms with the intent of showing that Nietzsche's atheism contains a richer and fuller affirmation of human life. In Dawkinss presentation of the value of life without God, there is a naive optimism that purports that human beings, educated in science and purged of religion, will find lives of easy peace and comfortable wonder. Part of my argument is that this optimism regarding the power of objective science is subject to Nietzsche's criticism of Socrates and what he calls the theoretical man. As such, it fails in terms of providing a true affirmation of life in the godless world.

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页数：16

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