[[Nietzsche]] as he appears in *[[Evil in Modern Thought - Neiman|Evil in Modern Thought]]*. ## In this book ### p. 212 — the problem of evil as diagnosis Page 212 begins Nietzsche's diagnosis that the problem of evil reveals more about the person raising the complaint than about the actual complaint—namely that life is screwed. > "Nietzsche thought the judgment that life is worthless revealed more about the judges than about life itself. Perhaps all the sages were decadents, old men too weak for life and literally sick of it? If so, they sought revenge. By positing a world beyond this one, they spoiled this one for the rest of us. 'Why not a Beyond if not as a means of befouling the Here-and-Now?' (ibid.). Those who condemn this world just reflect their own impotence. The sage's response is nothing if not clever: it's a cosmic version of the fox's decision that the grapes were sour." > — Susan Neiman, *Evil in Modern Thought*, p. 212 (inner quotation from Nietzsche) Relevant Nietzsche citations are in *Twilight of the Idols* 29, and 87. ## Links - Source: [[Evil in Modern Thought - Neiman|Evil in Modern Thought]], p. 212 - Map: [[Problem of Evil & Philosophy of Religion]]