do you like Nietzsche??

Question

why or why not?

Answer 1

I think he was a genius. I also agree with the writer!0!

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.....Oscar Wilde.

Enjoy!

Answer 2

I am very partial to Nietzsche.
His writing is stirring and poetic (though I have to rely on Walter Kaufmann remaining stylistically true to the original works as I can't actually read German)
I like his ideas about putting morality into a social and historical context and returning value to the earth. I agree with him that a constant longing for perfection and dismissal of what is not perfect can make people sick and dissatisfied.
I love his humor and the notion that "one does not destroy by wrath but by laughter," and I found myself glad when Zarathustra proclaimed he would rather be a fool than a prophet.
Touching on a previous answer, when Nietzsche said "God is dead," he meant that God has been overcome by the search for truth that belief in the divine began. People came up with religions because they needed meanings. They were searching for the truth. They created God(s) but the search for truth continues both in terms of religion and science and the search for truth will eventually overcome (or kill) the ideas it previously created. Then those ideas need to be replaced with new ones which is why Nietzsche suggested the ideal of the overman.

Oh and one final reason I like Nietzsche. Contrary to what many people on these boards seem to think. Nietzsche was NOT a Nazi!!! He hated the German anti-Semites.

Answer 3

Oh yeah! Great author/philosopher, but a little (a lot) nuts. "Thus Spake Zarathustra" reads like poetry and is great philosophy. He had great incite into the flaws of western civilization. Use the Walter Kauffman (sic?) translations.

Answer 4

He was OK even if I don't agree with a thing he stated.

I think that the great philosophers weren't correct most of the time, but they did something that most people don't do; think deeply.

Answer 5

No I find him an idiot...what little I care to learn about him.
God seems to me to be the only thing self evident.
I see it in springtime flowers, in the eyes of a babe as she gazes at her mom.
Whether you wish to call it Subconcious, collective unconcious, IT, or whatever.
For him to claim God is dead is about as arrogant anyone can get.

Answer 6

Not really. Thw whole God is dead thing is prettly lame and his only major claim to fame outside of his wierd family. I perfer Tolstoy

Answer 7

yes; I'm into postmodernists.