I have found that Nietzscheanism has a lot of value as a more modern post-Darwin life-philosophy and yet is faulty in that it is an extreme counter position. On the other hand, an unfiltered, first century context, look at the New Testament means its essentially an apocalyptic, martyr-centric, monastic, celibacy-focused, and in many ways an emasculating, life-philosophy. And Buddhism is essentially nihilistic and monastic. Yet, Tom Holland in his book Dominion argues convincingly that Christianity led to the ethics that led to our current concepts of Human Rights and civility. Hence even many academic atheists respect Christianity from a historical perspective on its advancement of a new ethic for living.
In my view, Mormonism as a "philosophy" bridges the gap between these life-philosophies on opposite ends of the spectrum by offering a more balanced integration (a center point) of both the more Nietzschean energy found in the Hebrew Bible (masculine energy; will to power) and the Pauline energy of the New Testament (more feminine energy; will to love).
