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> I don't agree with all of what he puts forth but he is without a doubt one of the most dynamic and influential thinkers of the 19th century and still relevant
by rv-de 8y ago
> I don't agree with all of what he puts forth but he is without a doubt one of the most dynamic and influential thinkers of the 19th century and still relevant to read even today.
Considering a philosophical model a logically interconnected and consistent system of assumptions, rejecting some of the assumptions/propositions can be an indication that the entire model is to be rejected even if other assumptions seem acceptable.
- andreilys 8y agoHe doesn't propose a philosophical model. He's more of a destroyer than a system builder, and explores a wide range of ideas (My favorite being eternal recurrence, beyond good/evil, overcoming oneself and creating meaning in a world where God is dead)
- coldtea 8y agoA philosophical model is not necessarily "a logically interconnected and consistent system of assumptions". Even math couldn't be that, despite the efforts of Hilbert, Russel, and co. In the case of Nietzsche in particular, he scoffs at philosophers pretending theirs to be one. He offers observations, and individual ones, jumping from one to another, and doesn't pretend to offer a model. But even for those philosophers that do think their work is a "logically interconnected and consistent system", you can still have perfectly good (or, perfectly useful) parts of their overall system, while others might be wrong.