(August 21, 2019 at 6:47 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Because this is a quote thread. I'm funny like that. Didn't make much sense to quote it in 'Sports and Fitness'.
Boru
I found the source of the quote. Like you, Russell prefers to make his assertions without any quote from Nietzsche at all, or any arguments other than his own assertions.
The quote comes from a book published, significantly, in 1945. Due to the lies of the Nazis and the gullibility of Nietzsche's sister, anglophones still thought of Nietzsche as a Nazi, and that Nazi "philosophy" in some way derived from him.
Russell at the time didn't have the benefit of the important work done by Kaufmann in showing us what Nietzsche had actually said, and how it had been misconstrued after his death, through no fault of his own.
It's disappointing to see Russell making such an unsupported set of assertions, and equally disappointing to see that people are still taking it seriously, even after scholarship and a careful reading of the books themselves show his view to be overly simple, at best.