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55: Epicurus

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Nietzsche's Thoughts on Epicurus

In Daybreak, Apharism 72, Nietzsche describes the progression of the various afterworlds that man invented. He traces this through to what he calls the un-Jewish idea of hell introduced into Christianity by barbarians and death cults. Until finally modern science arrives and has the virtue of liberating us from this notion. And Epicurus is once more triumphant, end quote.

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