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My reading of Nietzche left me with the sense that he was about as conceited and anti-egalitarian as they come. https://www.google.com/search?q=hitler%20nietzs

My reading of Nietzche left me with the sense that he was about as conceited and anti-egalitarian as they come. https://www.google.com/search?q=hitler%20nietzsche%20philosophy https://www.google.com/search?q=hitler%20nietzsche%20philoso...

Amezarak 12y ago
> My reading of Nietzche left me with the sense that he was about as conceited and anti-egalitarian as they come. Nietzsche was anti-democratic and anti-socialist, yes. In most of his works he goes to extreme lengths (almost pathetic lengths) to rant against German nationalism and German antisemitism. Nietzsche was, without a shadow of a doubt, one hundred percent opposed to the Nazis. Indeed this was the primary reason for his split with (and apparent hatred of) his sister. The Nazis may have co-opted Nietzsche but they hardly be said to have taken him seriously. From a draft letter to his sister: After I read the name Zarathustra in the anti-Semitic Correspondence my forbearance came to an end. I am now in a position of emergency defense against your spouse's Party. These accursed anti-Semite deformities shall not sully my ideal!!" From Gay Science: [...]we are not nearly "German" enough, in the sense in which the word "German" is constantly being used nowadays, to advocate nationalism and race hatred and to be able to take pleasure in the national scabies of the heart and blood poisoning that now leads the nations of Europe to delimit and barricade themselves against each other as if it were a matter of quarantine. For that we are too open-minded, too malicious, too spoiled, also too well-informed, too "traveled": we far prefer to live on mountains, apart, "untimely," in past or future centuries, merely in order to keep ourselves from experiencing the silent rage to which we know we should be condemned as eyewitnesses of politics that are desolating the German spirit[...] We who are homeless are too manifold and mixed racially and in our descent, being "modern men," and consequently do not feel tempted to participate in the mendacious racial self-admiration and racial indecency that parades in Germany today Indeed Nietzsche went so far as to deny he was German at all but rather of Polish descent even though this was almost certainly not true and he almost certainly would have known it, simply because of his opposition to the German nationalism and anti-semitism that had overtaken Germany - basically in a big F U.

Amezarak 12y ago

> My reading of Nietzche left me with the sense that he was about as conceited and anti-egalitarian as they come. Nietzsche was anti-democratic and anti-socialist, yes. In most of his works he goes to extreme lengths (almost pathetic lengths) to rant against German nationalism and German antisemitism. Nietzsche was, without a shadow of a doubt, one hundred percent opposed to the Nazis. Indeed this was the primary reason for his split with (and apparent hatred of) his sister. The Nazis may have co-opted Nietzsche but they hardly be said to have taken him seriously. From a draft letter to his sister: After I read the name Zarathustra in the anti-Semitic Correspondence my forbearance came to an end. I am now in a position of emergency defense against your spouse's Party. These accursed anti-Semite deformities shall not sully my ideal!!" From Gay Science: [...]we are not nearly "German" enough, in the sense in which the word "German" is constantly being used nowadays, to advocate nationalism and race hatred and to be able to take pleasure in the national scabies of the heart and blood poisoning that now leads the nations of Europe to delimit and barricade themselves against each other as if it were a matter of quarantine. For that we are too open-minded, too malicious, too spoiled, also too well-informed, too "traveled": we far prefer to live on mountains, apart, "untimely," in past or future centuries, merely in order to keep ourselves from experiencing the silent rage to which we know we should be condemned as eyewitnesses of politics that are desolating the German spirit[...] We who are homeless are too manifold and mixed racially and in our descent, being "modern men," and consequently do not feel tempted to participate in the mendacious racial self-admiration and racial indecency that parades in Germany today Indeed Nietzsche went so far as to deny he was German at all but rather of Polish descent even though this was almost certainly not true and he almost certainly would have known it, simply because of his opposition to the German nationalism and anti-semitism that had overtaken Germany - basically in a big F U.