Meschugenes Ubermenschchen", which means in Enlish, translated loosely, "Loco little Overperson". — god must be atheist
I'd say your claim that he meant purposefully to exclude women is as much, if not more, "retro-reading into him." — Artemis
Can we settle this simply by saying that Nietzsche was not a man of XXIst century western culture, experience, and sensitivity? — tim wood
You're accusing me of attributing some 21st C understanding of the world to Nietzsche. But you're attributing some simplistic, stereotyped, and frankly inaccurate 21st C understanding of the people of the 19th C to him. — Artemis
Uber=over, mensch=man. But never as woman. Whether — tim wood
If you continue this, please cite chap. & verse and show I'm wrong. — tim wood
Have you got that? — tim wood
You mean he wanted to destroy what other people once believed, instead of expressing his own opinion accurately? — Rystiya
From these it can be inferred that Nietzsche very much thought about women and women's rights and that it is highly unlikely that his use of "Mensch" was either exclusionary of women, or not a purposefully gender-neutral term. — Artemis
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