The author does not seem to be very familiar with philosophy. Worse, (s)he seems to have an agenda. Friedrich Neitzsche was not a Christian, but I can't imagine what the evidence was that he was in fact atheistic--particularly since his writing is rather rich in seemingly reverend references to God (his concept of God). The whole point of Also Sprach Zarathustra was to write down his ideas in a cryptic form so that only those who were "worthy" would understand them.
"It is hard to be understood, especially when one thinks and lives gangasrotogati among men who think and live kurmagati, or at best "the way frogs walk," mandeikagati - I do try to make myself hard to understand!"
"Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and, out of cruelty against themselves, worship stone, stupidity, gravity, fate, nothingness?" (the context is not one of approval)
"The possibility of an apparent existence of the subject, hence "the soul," might not have always been alien to him—that thought which, as Vedanta philosophy, was once present with enormous power on earth."
(quotes taken from "Beyond Good and Evil").
(The good news is that God exists; the bad news is that YOU don't--there's no "self").
Nietzsche also pretty thoroughly demolished Descartes. Nietzsche read Indian philosophy. The correct inferrence is "thinking is going on, therefor, thinking is going on", and you can stop right there. As Nietzsche and others have pointed out, the "I" just pops into existence according to the rules of grammer!
"It is hard to be understood, especially when one thinks and lives gangasrotogati among men who think and live kurmagati, or at best "the way frogs walk," mandeikagati - I do try to make myself hard to understand!"
"Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and, out of cruelty against themselves, worship stone, stupidity, gravity, fate, nothingness?" (the context is not one of approval)
"The possibility of an apparent existence of the subject, hence "the soul," might not have always been alien to him—that thought which, as Vedanta philosophy, was once present with enormous power on earth."
(quotes taken from "Beyond Good and Evil").
(The good news is that God exists; the bad news is that YOU don't--there's no "self").
Nietzsche also pretty thoroughly demolished Descartes. Nietzsche read Indian philosophy. The correct inferrence is "thinking is going on, therefor, thinking is going on", and you can stop right there. As Nietzsche and others have pointed out, the "I" just pops into existence according to the rules of grammer!