Assorted Thoughts and Wandering Shadowy Reflections
Modernity was born with this guy, he perfected the art of free thinking, an early book of his was Voltairian, Human, All Too Human. He kept progressing, never quite at peace.
I first read Nietzsche in 1995, and it was in an environment that demonized him, reading him was a form of rebellion.
Nietzsche for me is like a diamond, reflecting both what came before, and what came after, an example of before is Montaigne, and an after example is E.M. Cioran.
Some think he's just good for disgruntled teenagers, the truth about Nietzsche is he is thinker who was alive, his thoughts pulsate, no other philosopher is quite like him, which is why some object to him being called a philosopher in the first place.
I invite anyone who likes to, to share their thoughts, positive, negative doesn't matter, and thus enrich this page of Similar Worlds. :)
Thanks so far for your contributions to this page, i shall add here that i've not a scholarly knowledge of FWN, and i further see that scholarliness is something you can totally dispense with here. A fascinating thing is that he seems to matter both to those who admire and hate him, says something.
His message was aristrocratic, elitist, and individualistic. It was enlivened by humor and attitude, the world had some trouble adjusting, but i make it clear here he was misunderstood by those who shaped the horrors of WWII, he caught glimpses of it when he said such phrases as do not mistake me for who i'm not, and so forth, he was prophetical too.
Politics seems to overshadow his significance, i have very little affection for politics, and reading Nietzsche goes real fine and dandy with that predisposition.
Talk on peoples, and have fun, i might sleep soon though, please don't delete anything, i'd like to see what y'all had to say while snoring away. :)
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He is one of the few philosophers that can bring both good and evil. He developed existentialism and a philosophy of Aryanism that brought the world to WW2 through Hitler's application.
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@SomeLikeItHot Sure was misunderstood by the Nazis :(
@SW-User It was anti-Semitic in tone when Nietzsche wrote it.
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@SomeLikeItHot Those who read him more fully will see how nothing was black and white to him, it was perspectivism in action, singling out parts will of course make him sound like he was anything.
@SomeLikeItHot Nietzche was vehemently against anti-Semitism. He fought with his editor, sister, and brother in law over just this. He was also dismissive and critical of volkisch nationalism. It was the Nazis who appropriated his Wille zur Macht.
@CopperCicada He was very much against Christianity and coupled Judaism with the later Religon. Yes he made comments that pushed up against the anti Semiticism of Germany at the time but one only needs to review his concept of the Ubermensch
@CopperCicada Yes nor can he be blamed for the appropriation of his views by a movement that didn't have any intellectual foundation to begin with which is why they did so.
