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Nietzschean Christianity, or, an American Foreign-Policy Paradox

Shawn Gorman

In the dominant American political consensus at the beginning of the 21st century,the welfare state plays the same role Christianity plays within the Nietzschean genealogy of morals. That is, according to Reaganite economic theory, it is the welfare state, instead of Christianity, that is guilty of favoring the weak, thereby dampening the upsurge of primal forces associated with vigor and life. ...