The more I read this man the more I'm coming to realise that he is a complete fraud and hypocrite.
The world-historical irony of Nietzsche is that he invents the concept of ressentiment to attack Christianity and socialism as the ethic of the powerless deflecting their hatred of the powerful into a metaphysic that will give them ultimate victory in the future, when this is essentially Nietzsche's own project as well. His whole philosophy is shot through with ressentiment.
Nietzsche was an outcast from society whose works were ignored during his lifetime and who couldn't hold down a proper teaching post and had to be supported financially by friends and relatives. He never knew any women other than his sister and probably died a virgin. He was also a political reactionary who witnessed the relentless advance of democracy and progress during his lifetime and could not bear it.
How did this come to the fore in his philosophy? Since Nietzsche resented the progressing emancipation of women, the extension of the democratic franchise, the egalitarian tendency of industrial society, he took this ressentiment and with it created an elaborate TELEOLOGICAL METAPHYSIC of the Last Man giving way to the coming Overman of whom Nietzsche claims to be his prophet. Thus, Nietzsche creates a philosophy based on the fear of those above him (e.g. women, considering his abnormal relationship with them). His entire ethical programme is to soothe him with the hope that those philistines who don't appreciate Heraclitus will receive their judgement day, and Nietzsche will be vindicated and rewarded by History as the man who helped bring this about. The whole function of his philosophy is to take revenge on a world which does not appreciate his genius.
How can anyone take this hypocrite seriously? No wonder he went mad.
I'm sorry.
>>8271879
>He never knew any women other than his sister and probably died a virgin
Easy there big nuts, he was involved in a love triangle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Andreas-Salom%C3%A9
>>8271879
>A complete fraud and hypocrite.
Savage.
But isn't philosophy just one large intellectual war between frauds and hypocrites?
Anyways, I took the things I liked about Nietzsche with me and threw out the stuff I thought wasn't useful. Don't take it too seriously.
>if a philosopher doesn't live up to his philosophy then said philosophy is wrong
Nice ad-hominem, OP.
>>8271935
Then Nietzsche's entire concept of slave morality as motivated by ressentiment is also an ad hominem
OP thinks the overman is to be feared.
He was a daring thinker, but not a genius. If you read Emerson, Carlyle, and Larochefoucauld, you can't help but consider him a minor philosopher.
His popularity is easily explained by the ignorance of the average philosophy professor and the fact that his ideas, under the mask of "danger" area actually extremely appealing to anyone in a capitalistic society.
