Criticism of humanism as being over-idealistic began in the 19th Century . For Friedrich Nietzsche, humanism was nothing more than an empty figure of speechTony Davies, Humanism (1997) p. 37 – a secular version of theism. Max Stirner expressed a similar position in his book The Ego and Its Own, published several decades before Nietzsche's work. Nietzsche argues in Genealogy of Morals that human rights exist as a means for the weak to constrain the strong; as such, they do not facilitate the emancipation of life, but instead deny it.
Criticism of humanism as over-idealistic began in the 19th century . For Friedrich Nietzsche, humanism was nothing more than an empty figure of speechTony Davies, Humanism (1997) p. 37 – a secular version of theism. Max Stirner expressed a similar position in his book The Ego and Its Own, published several decades before Nietzsche's work. Nietzsche argues in Genealogy of Morals that human rights exist as a means for the weak to constrain the strong; as such, they do not facilitate the emancipation of life, but instead deny it.
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