Gold, Jonathan C.Burgess, John P.Seely, Matthew Spencer2015-06-292026-09-302015-06-292026-09-302015-03-302015-06-29http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp016q182n45vhttps://theses-dissertations.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp016q182n45vThroughout his career, Friedrich Nietzsche put forth a doctrine of philosophy that is, on surface, decidedly anti-­‐spiritual. However, Nietzsche’s skepticism of the unselfing process, or the process of individual depersonalization, in fact accords with the teaching of Perennialist spiritualism, as epitomized by Mahāyāna Buddhism, since the doctrine of no self makes an absurdity of the notion of individual enlightenment.42 pagesen-USPrinceton University Senior Theses