LUMINA Volume 22 No. 1


WHEN SOCIETY MEETS THE INDIVIDUAL, MARX CONTRA NIETZSCHE: ANTIPODAL VIEWS ON SOCIETY, MORALITY, AND RELIGION


by Prof. Menelito P. Mansueto

Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche would certainly have a lot of things in common. At first glance, one would think that both of them are looking at a similar direction. They seemed to quarrel on the same side against morality and religion. Indeed, both of them rejected morality and religion. They can both be considered as “immoralists” in the same manner as they proclaim to be unbelievers. Both Marx and Nietzsche had their own taste of a sordid attack against Christianity, and recognized it as a religion of the suffering. And, thus both of them call to abolish religion.



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