I would not be able to rely on your interpretation of Nietzsche, — god must be atheist
You have given me much valuable insight. Thanks. — god must be atheist
It's the same for me with quantum mechanics. I don't understand anything. But I don't blame quantum mechanics, but my lack of understanding. But I avoid deepening my ignorance by claiming that quantum mechanics is this or that. At most, I ask the one who understands and try to learn. Caution is the virtue of wise men. — David Mo
Superiority in what way exactly. Economically, physically, intellectually, interesting way of thinking. Would you elaborate please — LuckilyDefinitive
The analogy is faulty in this aspect. — god must be atheist
Never apologize. — David Mo
If you're associating Nietzsche with the mafia, you've certainly got it wrong. But the insecurity isn't in Nietzsche, it's in your reading. Just because there are some debatable things in Nietzsche doesn't mean that any reading can be admitted. — David Mo
I understand that you maybe get Hume by directly reading his writings. If that is the case, you are my hero. — god must be atheist
Basically a person without Culture, inner or outer, is a weak and dangerous person as they’ll look to disrupt others rather than strengthen themselves through toil and stress (life). — I like sushi
Hans Frank, the Nazi Governor-General of Poland, passionately played Chopin's Polonaises while exterminating Poles, especially Jews. I don't think the "Culture" prevents social dangerousness. — David Mo
We were talking about Nietzsche. — I like sushi
In the last phase of his life, Nietzsche abhorred German anti-Semites who seemed to him to be stupid and like sheep. But he never rectified the many times he accused Jewish race and culture of being mainly responsible for the decline of the Western world. This is a theory that appears in almost all of his mature writings. Would you like us to look for quotes? I'd like to see the ones you have.Nietzsche actually has high praise for the Jews it was his sister who gave him a bad name — I like sushi
Doesn't this metaphor, if that's what it is, seem to neglect the fact that the behavior of herd animals is no less driven by "instinct" than is the behavior of predators and scavengers?When the hatred of instincts dominates, the herd dominates. Then, even leaders are unable to let their instincts rise and they preach the morality of the flock and hatred against strong spirits. — David Mo
Does he acknowledge this distinction somewhere? Does he indicate that the term "instinct" has another meaning in ordinary language? Or does the "Nietzschean concept of instinct" seem to conflate the ordinary use with a peculiar use associated with the "will to power"?the Nietzschean concept of instinct refers to individuals. It is more the triumph of the will of power than a biological mechanism. — David Mo
How does this jive with the historical account presented in the quotation in the initial post, and with your initial reply to that post?To summarize: "power", "strong", "lord", "life" refer to individual and vital forces that oppose the concept of species in biological Darwinism or of nation and race in social Darwinism. That's why he hated German antisemitism. — David Mo
My sentence referred to someone's Darwinian interpretation of the distinction between Nietzsche's "two races": the servants and the lords. I tried to explain that Nietzsche did not understand the will to power in terms of the survival of the fittest. Noble men are strong in excellence not in ability for survival.How does this jive with the historical account presented in the quotation in the initial post, and with your initial reply to that post? — Cabbage Farmer
He praises the Jews and takes digs at them, he does the same for ‘Europeans’. — I like sushi
because they think of groups of people’s as being the same. — I like sushi
So why does he call himself "incorrigible European and anti-Semitic" in a letter to his sister Elizabeth (February 7, 1886)?He was open about his hatred of nationalism and anti-semitism. Anyone and anything he talked about was with derision and bombast. — I like sushi
The core of Nietzsche's theory is the criticism of morality as an invention of the powerless to undermine the values of the noble. Revenge, not justice, is at the root of morality. The revenge of the weak and spiteful against those who are more noble than they are. And the Jewish people are one of the main responsible for this "poisonous" feat. Read "The Genealogy of Morals",Treatise I, section 7. For example:The heart of his writings are not about Jews? — I like sushi
It was the Jews who, rejecting the aristocratic value equation (good = noble = powerful = beautiful = happy= blessed) ventured, with awe-inspiring consistency, to bring about a reversal and held it in the teeth of the most unfathomable hatred (the hatred of the powerless). — Nietzsche
Nothing that has been done on earth against ‘the noble’, ‘the mighty’, ‘the masters’ and ‘the rulers’, is worth mentioning compared with what the Jewshave done against them: the Jews, that priestly people, which in the last resort was able to gain satisfaction fromits enemies and conquerors only through a radical revaluation of their values, that is, through an act of the most deliberate revenge[durch einen Aktder geistigsten Rache]. — Nietzsche
Nietzsche was an emotional enemy of anti-Semitism as he lived it... This does not prevent him, when he speaks sincerely, from leaving all anti-Semitism far behind in severity in his judgments of the Jews. His anti-Christianity is basically based on anti-Semitism. — Franz Overbeck
You’re obsessed. — I like sushi
I’m interested in how Morality relates to reasoning in general — I like sushi
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