RE: Are you the monster you want to be?
December 20, 2018 at 5:23 pm
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2018 at 5:33 pm by vulcanlogician.)
(December 20, 2018 at 3:51 pm)Drich Wrote: the conclusion made are based on his inability to communicate whole ideals.
I somewhat agree with this particular point, as I said in my other post. It is important to note, however, that Nietzsche was himself aware of this. His first major philosophical work, The birth of Tragedy makes this very clear. There he compares two facets of human nature (Apollonian and Dionysian). More recently, a YouTuber renamed them "Moral" and "Aesthetic" qualities, which I rather like. He saw Christian culture and Western philosophy as overly-concerned with "moral" qualities and under-concerned with "aesthetic" ones... hence his contributions focus on the deficit. There's nothing wrong with this approach. In fact, it seems like a good course to take if you want to do real work and make a worthwhile contribution. And Nietzsche periodically admits that he is merely supplying arguments for the under-represented side of things.
I think it's unfair to associate Nietzsche with the Nazis, though. For one, he hated German culture and would have certainly opposed it being held aloft. Second, the Nazi's came AFTER Nietzsche. They distorted his ideas as it suited their needs. He can't be blamed for that any more than the Bible can be blamed when anti-Jewish sentiments in the NT are used to justify bigotry against the Jews. Of course, the Nazis used some of his ideas to justify their evil. So what? They used Christianity the same way, and any other ideology that spoke to their narrative.
I have no idea how you associate Nietzsche with the hippies. That just seems out of left field.