2006-11-06 06:50:54 · 18 answers · asked by catweazle 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
about what
2006-11-06 06:58:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
about what? about the origin of moral codes in power drives? I think so. About God no longer being alive as a relevant factor in understanding our world and establishing norms, having been replaced by enlightenment values? I think so. About the wickedness of pity and compassion? There I would have to disagree. Nietzsche has a lot of appeal, and he was right about a lot of things, I think. His idea of genealogy is brilliant. But maybe he should have done a genealogy of his own theories and whether in rejecting compassion for individual excellence he wasn't just catering to a will to power just like the Christians had done.
tigranvp2...: umm, nietzsche didn't go insane out of despair about the death of god, it was from syphillis, I think. Also, he did give a way to provide value to human life without god. Nietzsche's major project was to figure out how to avoid nihilism if God didn't exist. In his time, most people assumed that without god life was meaningless, one of nietzsche's successes was to show that there was value. For him it was the value of creative expression and individual excellence. I happen to think that utilitarianism provides a better source of values, but that still doesn't change the fact that Nietzsche was able to provide meaning in a godless universe. Personally, I think its absurd that God is necessary for meaning. If I do something that gives me pleasure, that act has meaning to me, and it doesn't require any supernatural being to give that meaning. There is plenty of meaning to be found in this world. In doing good, helping others, being a member of a community, being creative, even being a hedonist. Those are all potential sources of meaning that require no god.
2006-11-07 00:38:05 · answer #2 · answered by student_of_life 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As with Ayn Rand, Nietzsche's own interpretation of his philosophy has to be separated from his discoveries and insights. This Discoverer's Fallacy may be more obvious with Freud in that we have a subconcious, Ego, Id, and Superego, but they are not driven by sex and the Oedipus Complex.
Nietzsche's followers became Nazis, Rand's became Enron jackals. Both were snobs who were only preaching to the spoiled upper class, yet anyone can modify their philosophies to adjust to the fact that talent appears in all classes. Nietzsche called for us to assert ourselves, but that's a lot easier if you're brought up rich and brainwashed from childhood that you're born to rule and are automatically superior without having to prove it. Also, born bullies have no inhibitions about asserting themselves, so that's why Nietzscheism led to Naziism.
2006-11-06 16:05:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Nietzsche was wrong about God; His belligerence toward God was irrational. I believe that his mental breakdown was due in part to declaring God is dead. Because, when God died so did any value that was true of man. A human being's value is based on the fact that he is made in the moral and spiritual image of God. If not, then he is no more valuable than a stray cat or dog. With that, we should abort every baby, and kill all mentally and physically handicapped people, because life has no value.
2006-11-06 18:00:55 · answer #4 · answered by tigranvp2001 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
About what ? About refusing to help Mrs Nietzsche around the house ? Definitely not. About that moustache ? Probably not. About going to the rescue of that horse ? Well, yes in principal, but he allowed himself to become overwrought.
2006-11-06 15:03:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
His answers hold truth for his time, given his understanding of his world. That truth can be synthesized into what we know today, but is not completely right for our times. We build on those who came before us by decontructing and reconstructing using the most usable blocks of information.
2006-11-06 14:57:06 · answer #6 · answered by fancyname 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
that god is dead?NO..for there never existed such an entity in the first place..but nietszche could also mean other things when he used the term god..it could also mean art,which,in any case, is also not dead..but the beauty of nietszche's language and the originality of his thoughts could never be wrong..he is a humanist, he believes in the power of humanity to survive in a godless universe..in that,he will forever be right.
2006-11-06 15:13:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
About some things, yes, I guess.
do you mean the 'God is dead' thing? I Wish! God is bigger today that any 19th century philosopher could have predicted, alas! Hence 9/11 etc etc.
2006-11-06 15:07:16 · answer #8 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you think he claimed.
And that mustache was his sister's doing, after he had his breakdown. When he did his own grooming, he looked normal enough.
2006-11-06 17:40:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes and so was Sartre. at their times they were right. most of their philosophies holds true value(or weight) till today just as Ayn Rand does.
Cheers!!
2006-11-06 15:06:18 · answer #10 · answered by vick 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Occasionally !
2006-11-06 17:20:32 · answer #11 · answered by poetikliesense 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋