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Socrates is a corrupter of youth and deserves his hemlock.
---Nietzsche

2007-04-17 16:11:47 · 6 answers · asked by Hitler 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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There is much in Socrates that Nietzsche disapproved of. He agreed that Socrates did corrupt Athens by making its once strong, proud and noble people doubt themselves because how they led their lives, worshiped their Gods and thought about the world did not measure up to a standard of perfect logic.
Socrates did this, according to Nietzsche for two reasons. First, he was a logic addict the same way another person might be a sex, drug or food addict. He craved logic, he craved perfection and sublimated all his other cravings for "baser" things to it. The second reason is because his probing and questioning of the Athenians was done out of his resentment and desire for revenge against people who were handsome when he was ugly, strong and healthy where he was weak and infirm. He wanted to make the well-constituted feel badly about how they were. According to Nietzsche, Socrates acted from the two worst motives, addiction and revenge. The result made people sick and unsure of themselves before the ideal of perfect logic and paved the way for Plato's forms, Christianity and the Categorical Imperative. Socrates has a lot to answer for.
Still, Nietzsche also had to hand it to him on some level. He saw the old Athens dying when no one else could and broke from the herd. But the way he broke from the herd was as a sniveling weasel nibbling at the herd's foundations rather than as a proud lion uttering the sacred "NO!" at the top of his voice.

2007-04-18 03:16:00 · answer #1 · answered by K 5 · 1 0

This so-called quote is only the repetition of the charges made against Socrates, who accepted a guilty verdict and drank the poson, hemlock, willingly, thus accepting the court's decision. It is a great tribute to his noble sense of right and wrong.
The whole topic is probably beyond your understanding, Hitler.

2007-04-17 16:18:42 · answer #2 · answered by jaded 2 · 0 0

Hitler is one of the most notorious PSYCHOPATHS that history has given us.
Given that this guy likes to identify with Hitler, (and the curmudgeon rationalist Nietzsche) and in light of the recent tragedy in Virginia by another PSYCHOPATH, I'm sure the FBI profilers are getting a "homeland security" warrant on Herr "Hitler" as we type. I'll bet his mommy and daddy will be real pleased when they get the call from one of the FBI's "Special Agent" .

2007-04-17 16:22:33 · answer #3 · answered by goto jahosopher yahoo group 1 · 0 2

What exactly are you wanting? What he meant by that, or references in other writings that also demonstrate that?

Nietzche was a brillant man but he changed his opinion many times. You can argue the pro and con for any position and only use Nietzche quotes.

2007-04-17 16:17:29 · answer #4 · answered by phantom_of_valkyrie 7 · 0 0

agreed?

Nietzsche hated women?

2007-04-17 16:16:19 · answer #5 · answered by uhohspaghettiohohs 5 · 0 0

Why would you use that name as your profile name?

2007-04-17 16:14:31 · answer #6 · answered by Rosalind S 4 · 1 0

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