Current Events > Do you like Nietzche? How do you think he compares to other philosophers?

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Was he a beyond man, or not?

All you have to do is scream "will to power" at the top of your lungs and good things will happen to you.

Sunhawk is shutting the fuck up. Sunhawk remains shut the fuck up. And we have told him to shut the fuck up.

Came in here only to post this:

https://youtu.be/0N_RO-jL-90?si=zDolqWXy7EZoQQyD

Philosophical nihilism isn't healthy. Pretty much universally leads down dangerous, self isolation filled roads mentally. Super easy to ignite into radicalism too.

I've read most of his material. I've had it both in undergraduate and graduate school. I've read his material for fun too.

I like his writing style with the aphorism. It is a nice change of pace from something like Hegel or Kant. I also like his pseudo narrative work in Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

I think my favorite part of his works is The Birth of Tragedy. His emphasis on living embracing the irrationality, drama, and music of life is very uplifting to me. He is, despite his astounding harshness and cynicism at times, emphasizing an embrace of life and totality it has to offer.

His views on the modern condition are apocalyptic as he roots for the next phase of human existence to manifest. He calls out rotting parts of culture and the parts of culture that merely exist in a sort of zombie-like state. I think, often with bombast, he criticizes with too broad of strokes and his own personal pathological issues creep in to his writing.

The great failure is how his estate (sister) exploited him -- both physically before he died and intellectually -- and made him overly popular with zealots of various political stripes that misappropriate his philosophy. This has served to tarnish his reputation to a significant degree in many circles.

He isn't my favorite philosopher, but you're always in for a wild ride when you read his works. You will almost certainly strongly feel something while engaging with his work, let your inner Apollo and Dionysus shine! (edit forgot to mention Apollo)

my tl;dr

Perhaps the most important philosopher you need to read before confronting most 20th century philosophy content and don't let the edgelords misappropriating him scare you away.