55: Epicurus
The Nietzsche Podcast
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Nietzsche's Antichrist - The Afterlife for Hell
Nietzsche thinks that the opportunity was sort of missed in ancient Rome. He sees something implicitly good about the fact that all the Roman nobility were becoming Epicureans. Paul arrives with this religion that takes the hell doctrine and imprints it onto everyone's minds. And so, you know, as Nietzsche wrote elsewhere, he thinks it would be a great boon to man if we didn't have to think about death.
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