Nietzsche is my favorite philosopher. Who is a philosopher similar to Nietzsche that I might like as well?

Answer 1

Ayn Rand

Answer 2

Victor Frankl.

But Honestly, Have you ever read a complete book written by Nietzsche or are you just fond of his quotes?

I taught a class last year at UEA in Hong Kong and 90% of the class listed Nietzsche as their favorite philosopher. Yet, not one has actually read any of his books. This is animpossible study to conduct on the Internet because people will straight out lie to complete strangers for no apparent reason. So I am sure that everyone who answered this question has read all of his books, no doubt about it.

Anyway, I assigned Beyond Good and Evil, as the most commonly noted quotes come from this book.

After 3 weeks I conducted a second survey and not one student selected Nietzsche as their favorite. What had changed? The most common answer given was that most were not aware of the context that his pop quotes were originally written in. Everyone agreed that reading the book was pure torture, and this was even before we got into the history of the man.

I recommend Frankl because his studies deal with the triumph of life over death. Some people believe that what we put into our minds greatly influences the outcome of our lives.



Best Wishes

Answer 3

Yahoohoo's suggestion above of reading "Mein Kampf" is something I must strongly disagree with. The Nazis took Nietzsche's concept of the "ubermench" (superman) and perverted it to justify their own racist ideology of a master aryan race. Nietzsche's ubermench was most certainly NOT based on race or other hereditary traits, but was an ideal that anyone could aspire to.

To answer your question though, there is a modern-day philosophical movement called Extropianism which builds on the concept of the ubermench. They use the words transhuman and posthuman instead. The posthuman is the next step in man's evolution, and is mentally as far beyond modern man as modern man is beyond Australopithecus. Like Nietzsche's ubermench, the posthuman is something not really in existence at this time, but rather a state to be strived for. The posthuman is physically almost immortal, having conquered aging and disease. The posthuman also has significantly greater mental abilities, including augmented memory and quite possibly a mind that has been uploaded into a more reliable, more efficient, and much faster electronic quantum computer.

Nietzsche considered the ubermench to be a concept, and did not think that anyone from his time had achieved that state. He did, however, consider a number of people to have come close to that state. The modern equivalent of that is the transhuman, a person somewhat above normal humans but not yet a posthuman. The transhuman may be somewhat physically modified, for instance through genetic modification, but it's mostly a state of mind now. Like the ubermench, the transhuman rejects artificial (societal, cultural, religious) limits to his being, recognizing that within every human is a vast untapped potential to do more and to be more.

Answer 4

Early twentieth-century thinkers influenced by Nietzsche include: philosophers Theodor Adorno, Georg Brandes, Henri Bergson, Martin Buber, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Emil Cioran, Michel Foucault, and Muhammad Iqbal; sociologist Max Weber; theologian Paul Tillich; novelists Hermann Hesse, André Malraux, André Gide and D. H. Lawrence; psychologists Alfred Adler, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and Rollo May; poets Rainer Maria Rilke, and William Butler Yeats; playwrights George Bernard Shaw, and Eugene O'Neill; and authors Menno ter Braak, and Jack London. American writer H.L. Mencken avidly read and translated Nietzsche's works and has gained the soubriquet "the American Nietzsche".

Answer 5

Hello dear!
Nietzsche is a great thinker and as he has set, Greek classic philosophers have influenced him! Further, I consider that the closer we go to the Truth the more we understand the Greek Philosophers!

Answer 6

Nietzsche is one of my favorites as well. However, you may want to try Wittgenstein and Sartre; they are also very great philosophers.

Answer 7

Schopenhauer, Nietzsche´s philology professor.

Answer 8

Deleuze
Derrida

Answer 9

"Ted" Theodore Logan. If you don't like him, try reading Bill S. Preston, Esq. Together they make Wyld Stallyns and their music and philosophies will eventually end war around the globe, bring about world peace, and just generally make the world a Utopian society.

Answer 10

Really enjoyed Neitzsche's Genealogy of moral's - the only one that I've read. Anyway, if that kind of approach interests you, I would definately recomend Foacult. (My favourite philosopher, so I might be biased).