Abstract

There have been innumerable works written on Nietzsche’s relationship to Christianity, and a number on Nietzsche’s relation to Schopenhauer. Georges Goedert has written one linking Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity to his critique of Schopenhauer. What is significant in this is that Goedert attempts to create out of this synthesis a coherent picture of Nietzsche’s development. In doing this, he also delivers a blow against the sometimes fashionable view that Nietzsche, in some hidden and unspoken way, was a Christian, or worked in the spirit of Christianity.