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NIETZSCHE AND BUDDHISM

NIETZSCHE AND BUDDHISM

By Robert G Morrison
Read by Michael Lunts
10 hours 36 minutes

Morrison offers an illuminating study of two linked traditions that have figured prominently in twentieth-century thought: Buddhism and the philosophy of Nietzsche. Nietzsche admired Buddhism, but saw it as a dangerously nihilistic religion; he forged his own affirmative philosophy in reaction against the nihilism that he feared would overwhelm Europe. Continue Reading →