Nietzsche’s Tragic Philosophy on God’s Murder as Anthropology

• Autores: Juan Manuel Escamilla
• Localización: Comprendre: revista catalana de filosofia, ISSN 1139-9759, Vol. 26, Nº. 1, 2024, págs. 51-73
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Nietzsche put Jesus’ historical crucifixion at the center of philosophy to exile the notion of a transcendent God from philosophy. Discarding theology as metaphysics and replacing it with an anthropology of how human persons become divinized, Nietzsche contributed to unearthing the scapegoating mechanism as a god-making device at the center of human culture. Nietzsche’s focus on the murder of God, rather than Their death, suggested Girard’s martyrdom’s crucial role in the foundation and the preservation of culture. Following Girard, I read the madman’s parable of God’s death in The Joyous Science alongside paragraph 1052 of The Will to Power, where Nietzsche recognized that the difference between Dionysos and the Crucified can only be seen clearly from the perspective of Calvary.