Deus morreu: consequências para pensar a religião em Nietzsche

Abstract

The present study starts from the announcement of the death of God to think the sense of religion in Nietzsche. Although the philosophy of this thinker has proclaimed the death of God, this message does not necessarily imply the eradication of religion. It favors thinking it in other terms that do not bind it to a specific institution, or to a set of dogmas and rites, but as an affirmation of life. Thus, the death of God is thematized in order to highlight a critique of a certain vision of civilization and culture that contributed to the devaluation of life. While a critical philosopher of the devaluation of life is understood Nietzsche's hostile discourse on the Christian religion. Christianity is a worldview derived from Platonism and Judaism. In this sense, Christianity does not identify with the figure of Jesus. It points to a type of life that in the course of his death on the cross was distorted by the interpretation of the apostle Paul. Christianity became a Pauline invention. Notwithstanding his criticism of the Christian religion, what is meant is that the religious instinct still lives in Nietzsche's philosophy. The religious aspect present in Nietzsche, however, no longer appears in the traditional metaphysicalreligious appearance. Religion lives, it is important, but as long as it affirms life. It is to think of it in a allusive way, with a language that emphasizes less its onto-theological aspect, in order to highlight its symbolic-existential dimension much more. For Nietzsche, the religious element shows itself as the result of a creative instinct. Life as a will to power invents religion, new gods, in short, various mechanisms capable of increasing its power. Thus, the religious instinct continues to forge new spiritualties, new gods for life.