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Nietzsche is probably the most overrated philosopher who ever lived. He was a manic who instead of learning from the world withdrew into a fantasy version built
by rv-de 8y ago
Nietzsche is probably the most overrated philosopher who ever lived. He was a manic who instead of learning from the world withdrew into a fantasy version built from well-phrased sound bites (or "aphorisms" - which sounds nicer). His ideas primarily serve the purpose of confirming elitist and Darwinian perspectives predominantly popular among people who hold a grudge against society because they didn't get a large enough chunk from the big cake.
- eternalban 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Andreas-Salom%C3%A9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Andreas-Salom%C3%A9 I wonder if there ever have been prolific male philosophers that had a fully satisfying sexual and romantic life ..
- zmix 8y agoI wonder if there ever have been any men, that had a fully satisfying sexual and romantic life...
- eternalban 8y agoTouché! But consider, there is a whole lot of room between 0.0 and 1.0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jadvt7CbH1o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jadvt7CbH1o Are we not men? /g
- HNLurker2 8y agoWittgenstein, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Kierkegaard all died unmarried and childless
- eternalban 8y agoAristotle, ever practical, however tied the knot on the Isle of Lesbos. [left something for you here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19597916 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19597916]
- myopicgoat 8y agoI think that may be only partially fair: some people appreciate his writings because they question things which, at the time, (and possibly still now) would have been considered “true” or unquestionable (particularly stuff on moral). One may not like it but I think can still benefit from asking similar questions (while ignoring the answers which are, anyway, often somewhat cryptic). I personally enjoyed Thus spake Zarathustra for that reason, not so much the cake one.
- andreilys 8y agoThat's an unfair characterization, and ignores the profound impact he's had on other intellectual giants such as Carl Jung, Herman Hesse and many others. It seems like you're bone to pick with him is largely his elitist tone, which yes that's the whole point of his writing. He does not write for the masses, but for those striving to break out of herd mentality. To write him off as an elitist manic is to ignore who he was writing for and why.
- rixed 8y ago> Nietzsche is probably the most overrated philosopher who ever lived. But also an underrated poet.