Ever read Nietzsche AND Kant??

Question

If you have read books from these two philosophers you know how ingenius they are(even though they are opposed)... Which is your favorite and what book? Mine is Nietzsche and the Geneology of Morals, but A Critique of Pure Reason(by Kant) is quite simply a philosophical masterpiece.

Answer 1

Nietzsche was brilliant. Kant nailed ethics with his first form of the Categorical Imperitive. My favorite of Kant is Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. My favorite of Nietzsche is Ecce Homo. Don't ask me why, I just liked it. Eternal recurrence isn't stated as well in other texts.

I like Jean Paul Sarte too.

Answer 2

I do not think I have read enough of them to know that they are in any disagreement. From what I do know they seem to complement. Do they contradict in any description of contingent or principle?

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/nietzsche/1886/beyond-good-evil/index.htm

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/nietzsche/1874/challenge.htm

'Kant clung to the university, subjected himself to governments, remained within the appearance of religious faith, and endured colleagues and students: it is small wonder that his example produced in the main university professors and professors' philosophy.'

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/kant/index.htm#morals

Immanuel Kant


1724 - 1804
“The first step in regard to the subjects of pure reason, and which marks the infancy of that faculty, is dogmatic. The second, which we have just mentioned, is sceptical, and it gives evidence that our judgement has been improved by experience. But a third step, such as can be taken only by fully matured judgment, based on assured principles of proved universality, is now necessary, namely to subject to examination, not the facts of reason, but reason itself, ... not the censorship but the criticism of reason, whereby not its present bounds but its determinate and necessary limits.” [Critique of Pure Reason]

Answer 3

I have read both of these philosophers. Both are convoluted and very hard to understand at times. I don't consider either my favorite and don't much care for either.

I much prefer Heidegger or Plato.

Answer 4

My advice to anyone. Don't ever read Nietzsche. It's existential crap.

Immanuel Kant is perhaps the evilest man in the history of mankind. It was Kant who spawned Nietzsche and Marx who later spawned the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Roosevelt and many more.

Answer 5

My favorite book of Nietzsche is : "Thus Spoke Zarathustra".
& of Kant : "Prolegmena".

Answer 6

Read em both..I prefer Gary Larson's Far side for real meanings.