"More Realistic Than Christianity" | Nietzsche on Buddhism

Big thanks to ‪@HoovyTube‬ for the new outro! What a cool way to launch the new season. Welcome back to The Nietzsche Podcast, Season Seven! We're beginning with a two-part episode concerning Nietzsche's view of Buddhism. This episode, we will consider some of the basic teachings of Buddhism, and explore why Nietzsche viewed Buddhism with admiration. A repeated refrain in The Antichrist concerns Buddhism's superiority over Christianity. Why is it that Nietzsche considered Buddhism, a religion with a complex metaphysics and cosmology, to be a far more realistic and logical religion than Christianity? We are pointed in the direction of an answer in Nietzsche's description of Buddhism as "the religion of self-redemption". The following episode will concern Nietzsche's criticisms of Buddhism. Buy my book: https://www.blackrosewriting.com/biog... Support the show on Patreon:   / untimelyreflections   #nietzsche #thenietzschepodcast #philosophypodcast #history #historyofphilosophy #psychology #metaphysics #buddhism #buddha #enlightenment