Compare and contrast the views of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
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- Søren Kierkegaard founded his philosophy on a passionate though highly personal belief in God. This Danish philosopher challenged much of Christian philosophy while remaining deeply religious. Kierkegaard argued that life has meaning only when people reject the pursuit of pleasure and seek moral truth by looking within and recognizing their connection to the divine. Valued the single individual over the dehumanizing crowd.
- Friedrich Nietzsche was an equally passionate atheist who announced that "God is dead." For Nietzsche, all of life is governed by a primal force, the will to powerâ€""the will to grow, spread, seize, become predominant"â€"that is manifest in all living things. The will to power finds its highest expression in humankind in our universal desire to control others and impose our values on them. Thus the ultimate moral good is an individual's striving to exert his or her will to power to the fullest possible extent.
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