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Your question suggests a dismissal of N's work. Is that dismissal based on an serious engagement with his work? I'd be interested in seeing an argument why o
by YorkshireSeason 8y ago
Your question suggests a dismissal of N's work.
Is that dismissal based on an serious engagement with his work?
I'd be interested in seeing an argument why one should not let N be a guide. It would be nice (and unexpected) if that argument was informed by an actual reading of N's main works.
- scns 8y agoTalk is cheap, actions count.
- Bigpet 8y agoI just read it as a joke about how his own life ended. Not something many people want to emulate for themselves.
- yesenadam 8y ago(disclaimer: didn't/couldn't read article) Well, that's a rather snooty, snarky comment. Do you really want Nietzsche to be your guide in this subject? Of course not, geez. I didn't think the GP 'suggested a dismissal' of N, but of him as a one's guide to Better Living, which sounded very reasonable to me. And anyone familiar with N's writing can hopefully imagine many reasons why one might think that. It's sheer bluff to sound as if it's an unexpected or unreasonable question. (I had written a page in answer, e.g. starting 'Did he ever even have a girlfriend?', and started rounding up amusing and acute quotes from Chesterton and Santayana[0], but decided against including any of that. I'm a huge Nietzsche fan so answering properly would take a while; I decided your remark wasn't worth it. Sorry.) [0] Chesterton's Heretics and Orthodoxy contain good (and funny) critiques of Nietzsche, as do many of his other works, e.g. Varied/Twelve Types and GBS. Santayana's wonderful Egotism in German Philosophy has chapters on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.