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Nietzsche died broke and insane. Was that from following his own advice or failing to do so?
by Zigurd 2mo ago
Nietzsche died broke and insane. Was that from following his own advice or failing to do so?
- kodoman 2mo agoNewton put needles in his eye's and probably suffered greatly from self inflicted lead and mercury poisoning; Why do you trust his laws of motion?
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- oezi 2mo agoBeing successful or not in your wealth doesn't make you right or wrong about anything with the exception of maybe running the business that generated your wealth. Nietzsche presented two prototypical sets of human who interface with laws and ethics. He described why those believes exists and are self-reaffirming even if they are puzzling from the other side.
- Zigurd 2mo agoThe Ayn Rand stans say the same.
- chermi 2mo agoMy uncle told me not to smoke, but he's a smoker so I didn't listen.
- EGreg 2mo agoGood, lots of other people who aren't smokers can tell you that
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- EGreg 2mo agoSo did Tesla and Vincent Van Gogh, but how much did he create? Faraday was poor, etc. Lenin deteriorated, and Marx was always poor. Anyway...
- mr_toad 2mo ago> Nietzsche died broke and insane If he was alive today he’d probably have a YouTube channel and be making bank shilling dietary supplements.
- Zigurd 2mo agoYou jest, but that's the point a lot of people here are missing: Nietzsche would fit right in with the YouTuber bros, right up to the ignominious downfall.
- keiferski 2mo agoNo, not really. Nietzsche was a trained philologist with a brilliant academic career, before he ended it early because of health issues. He was leaps and bounds more educated and knowledgable than 99% of people making philosophy content on YouTube. He was also a pretty meek and gentle person, even if his ideas are anything but. Most people haven't actually read him though, and their knowledge of his work comes from poorly-researched YouTube videos.
- kodoman 2mo agoNot a follow of Nietzsche and critical of him but this is just unfair the sort of pandering to the audience that is required for a popular philosophy channel on youtube is something he would never debase himself to do (or probably any serious thinker). It's deeply embarrassing to be a whore even if it's well payed.
- Waterluvian 2mo agoIs there a name for this style of non-argument? I guess it’s an attack on credibility due to the inability to attack the content of the argument?
- wgjordan 2mo agoad hominem.
- chermi 2mo agoBased on the comments its even shallower than ad-hominem. It's loose association to the "bad" they learned from the "good". Therefore everything from bad is bad. It's team sports thinking. If I had to guess they probably read some wired article saying tech people are followers of Nietzsche based on one guy quoting one thing one time. Although probably used more dramatic terms like Nazis or fascist or something.