Nietzsche, Descartes, Lacan and the Death of God

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[O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel]

Another great reflection, and I’m so glad you’ve started to do these reflections of yours! Alexander Bard likes to say that “the death of God” was “the death of a paradigm, ” and I think that’s a nice way to put it. Also, you described the mistake of Nazism very well: when we fail to own the fact that every identity entails “essential incompleteness, ” we tend to blame that incompleteness on something external to us, and then believe that if we got rid of that external entity, we’d gain completeness. This is what I like to call “hole hope, ” and it is a source of much trouble in the world.

[chadahaagphilosophychannel]

Thanks for sharing, I remember when I took a whole course on Nietzsche in undergrad, the professor made a really big deal about the fact that for Nietzsche, the death of God is more about the problem of sincerity than anything else. He said this to me precisely after I had tried to bring the Derrida-style critiques of the Metaphysics of origin, full presence, substance etc. The professor noted that for Nietzsche the death of God is more about a certain irony inherent in Christian morality itself. Because Christian morality demands sincerity, if one actually pushes sincerity to its furthest limit, one finds oneself unable to completely sincerely affirm that one believes in something which one is not fully sure exists (hence, the death of God follows precisely from people adhering too literally to their own religious moral code). This is a subtle irony which risks getting lost if we delve too deep into the question of whether God is tenable on a purely metaphysical level. Even if those questions are suspended, the problem of sincerity still remains, at least as far as Nietzsche is concerned.

[vickychen]

I'll need to get my hands on a Philosopher's Notebook for myself!