Do you like/dislike Nietzsche? Why?

Answer 1

I like Nietzche, but it's in the same way I like Hume. They both dissected the ways in which humans think about the world. Both of them seperately came up with reasonable ways that human consciousness makes decisions, and the things that have conditioned us to think that way. Then they draw logical conclusions about the way our basic ways of thinking affect our lives.
I was about to tell you that those conclusions are not useful in real life, but I would have been totally wrong. Both have useful applications, and Nietzche esp. I frequently think to myself, "one can't seperate the lightning from the flash" when I get mad at people. It's one of my favorite quotes, I take it for, people are what they are, why get mad at them for it? They act in the way that their nature determines. I refuse to judge people for that. But I do know that it's my job to be someone who's nature is rational to make sure I don't do things I disapprove of.
And I agree that his later works are really not up to snuff, but madness and reinterpretation will have a poor effect on ones writings. And it's obvious from his early works that he wouldn't have supported Nazi's because he vehemently hated any sort of group that gave control of their thoughts/lives to a central authority, esp. one that ruled through fear. If there's anything he hated more than one irrational person, it was a group of them controlled by fear.
I think he really is one of the great thinkers in western philosophy. And he didn't make his living as a philosopher. He made it as an etymologist. He studied the origins of words. That's why he wrote of good and evil. Seriously, that and the essay about sheep and birds of prey are some of the best philosophy I've ever read.

Answer 2

Nietzsche of course is a good thinker, but from the philosophical point of view I may say that Nietzsche is a utter failure. The word philosophy refers to the love of knowledge and knowledge, wisdom or new thoughts should be always fo rthe betterment of the society and whoever adopts or accepts the thought must be benefitted. The philosophical thoughts should always be productive - not destructive.

As a literature the Nietzscheism is worth reading but nothing worthy to be adopted in life.

Answer 3

nietzsche's ideas have never made a lick of sense to me. he talks about heroism as if it were an individualistic quality when it is quite plain that humans are a social species.

he praises brute strength and unreflecting actions - but he does this in books (and made his living as a professional philosopher).

nietzsche was not himself anti-semitic, but his ideas were hijacked by his sister (who was) and became the philosophical justification for the holocaust.

nietzsche is probably the only philosopher ever who was dumber than adolf hitler.

and he fell in love with a horse.

i suppose you must like horses too.

Answer 4

he may have been a hypocrite, but he realized he was a hypocrite. Thos who do not understand him have not cared enough to taken the time to understand him. We have a pre determined dislike towards nietzsche because he challenged us.

Answer 5

I liked him because he really wanted to wake us up. The Buddha wanted Enlightened Man, Nietzsche wanted Awakened Man.
A Great Man.

Answer 6

Nietzsche was a neurotic, a pedophile and ultimately a hypocrite.

Answer 7

My favorite bumper sticker:

"God is dead"- Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead"- God

Answer 8

early nietzche he was the man... once he had syphalis and his sister in law was dictating his words i think hes lost alot of his insights. my favorite is "god created man, man killed god,man recreated god"