It is perhaps the greatest paradox of western philosophy that Nietzsche, whose most famous sentence isundoubtedly “God is dead” (Nietzsche, 2012, p. 366;this and all the other translations are my own) should be thea...It is perhaps the greatest paradox of western philosophy that Nietzsche, whose most famous sentence isundoubtedly “God is dead” (Nietzsche, 2012, p. 366;this and all the other translations are my own) should be theauthor of the only account of a Beatific Vision published in the nineteenth century. It can be found in Section 3 ofthe chapter on Also sprach Zarathustra in Ecce Homo. That God should choose to visit a man who once declaredthat He was dead will come as much of a surprise to Nietzsche’s readers as it did to him.展开更多
Published accounts of beatific visions are extremely rare.However,three famous philosophers recorded their own experiences of this phenomenon.They were the Frenchman Blaise Pascal(1623-1662),the German Friedrich Nietz...Published accounts of beatific visions are extremely rare.However,three famous philosophers recorded their own experiences of this phenomenon.They were the Frenchman Blaise Pascal(1623-1662),the German Friedrich Nietzsche(1844-1900)and the Swiss Carl Jung(1875-1961).This article poses the question of whether such visions should be considered to be schizophrenic hallucinations.展开更多
文摘It is perhaps the greatest paradox of western philosophy that Nietzsche, whose most famous sentence isundoubtedly “God is dead” (Nietzsche, 2012, p. 366;this and all the other translations are my own) should be theauthor of the only account of a Beatific Vision published in the nineteenth century. It can be found in Section 3 ofthe chapter on Also sprach Zarathustra in Ecce Homo. That God should choose to visit a man who once declaredthat He was dead will come as much of a surprise to Nietzsche’s readers as it did to him.
文摘Published accounts of beatific visions are extremely rare.However,three famous philosophers recorded their own experiences of this phenomenon.They were the Frenchman Blaise Pascal(1623-1662),the German Friedrich Nietzsche(1844-1900)and the Swiss Carl Jung(1875-1961).This article poses the question of whether such visions should be considered to be schizophrenic hallucinations.
