Nietzsche is good in small doses unless you’re feeling depressed. It’s fun to indulge when that’s the case
Nietzsche foretold all of this
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thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 5 hours ago
He’s a mixed bag. Sometimes he said some really cool and intuitive things, other times he was a theocrat and was later co-opted by Nazis.
cabbage@piefed.social 1 hour ago
For anyone unfamiliar, his sister was a Nazi, and after he died she managed his legacy in the worst possible way.
Nietzche had an interesting relationship to Jews and Judaism, informed over time by his own personal relationships in ways that probably didn’t influence his philosophy for the better. Parts of his work is about what he considers to be strong cultures, at which point he praised Judaism for being a particularly strong culture. Later in life he was less positive.
This of course comes on top of his thinking about religion, which is less one-sided than often portrayed: God is dead, we killed him, but importantly that was in all likelihood a huge mistake.
So the Nazi connotations are partly a result of his sister’s management of his legacy and unfinished/unpublished works after his death, part how Nazis ended up using his works long after his death.
He ended his life living with his sister in a rather fragile state, with his great writings behind him. Judging him by his death bed would be doing him and his work a great injustice. But even then there’s no evidence to indicate he was some sort of proto-Nazi.
sundray@lemmus.org 6 hours ago
All I knew about Ecce Homo was the title, and went away disappointed.
pmk@piefed.ca 6 hours ago
That’s how I feel about Emil Cioran.
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
opens book For ten years hast thou climbed hither unto my cave: thou wouldst have wearied of thy light and of the journey, had it not been for me, mine eagle, and my serpent. “Yeah I’ll just wait for the movie”
Fontasia@feddit.nl 2 hours ago
Ugh. I hate when they put all the horny stuff upfront so you’ll keep reading
jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
God created man.
Man created book.
Nobody read book.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It’s like a scene from James Joyce’s Ulysses.
DigDoug@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
You know, Quasimodo predicted all this.
sundray@lemmus.org 8 hours ago
Is was fore-tolled.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Fore trolled
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
You got your hunch back of Notre Dame, and you also got your quarterback and half-back of Notre Dame
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
RU-DY! RU-DY! RU-DY!
Smif_N_Lenin@piefed.social 7 hours ago
no he didn’t
daannii@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Did you read the book ?