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December 21, 2021
How Joseph B. Soloveitchik Responded to the Challenges of Nietzsche’s Critique of Religion
Rather than reject Nietzsche’s ideas, he seems to have incorporated them into his own.
It would seem difficult to believe that the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche—who assailed Judeo-Christian morality, urged that following the “death of God” it would be necessary to will new values into being, and occasionally dabbled in anti-Semitism—would have much in common with Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the great religious thinker of American Orthodoxy. Yet Soloveitchik received the bulk of his secular education studying philosophy in Weimar Germany, where the influence of Nietzsche’s writings could still be felt. And as much as Nietzsche has been credited as an intellectual harbinger of fascism, he preferred the Old Testament to the New, and was even more contemptuous of anti-Semites than he was of Jews. Alex Ozar, reviewing a new book by Daniel Rynhold and Michael Harris on the two thinkers, writes:
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How Joseph B. Soloveitchik Responded to the Challenges of Nietzsche’s Critique of Religion
Rather than reject Nietzsche’s ideas, he seems to have incorporated them into his own.
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