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Friedrich Nietzsche

fabi

19:06 / 27.01.06

Imagine you have to describe Nietzsche in one sentence, what would you say?

Dead Megatron

23:00 / 27.01.06

I always tought of the guy as an extremely frustrated human being who escaped reality by believing in a few very, very arrogant bs about self-transformation.

I mean, in theory, his ideas may sound cool and insightful, but what's the point of a philosophy that cannot be applied in real life? How many ubermensch do you know? Nietzsche himself, who died crazy, sick, and never got the girl, is a total failure by his own accounts.

Niestzsche: the philosopher of frustation. Spent his life fantasising about becoming something "more than man", and accomplished nothing.

(I imagine I'm starting a pretty fierce post-fight here, since nietzscheans tend to have a quasi-religious view of their "guru")

Ganesh

23:14 / 27.01.06

A bit sad.

23:18 / 27.01.06

Nietzsche bites the heads off of whippets.

Foust is SO authentic

02:16 / 28.01.06

Nietzsche: the philosopher of frustation. Spent his life fantasising about becoming something "more than man", and accomplished nothing.

I'm not quite sure you mean by "accomplishing nothing." Surely being the fountainhead of 20th century philosophy is something?

Which of his books have you read, Dead?

Dead Megatron

13:00 / 28.01.06

I've read The Antichrist, and parts of Ecce Homo, and I've hated them both.

Yes, he was succesfull in philosophical theorization. What I meant is he failed to apply his own philosophies on his own life, which makes me wonder if his ideas really work at all, and therefore, if 20th century philosophy was any good, to begin with...

Bring it on, nietzcheans!

Quantum

17:05 / 28.01.06

'Nietzsche was a syphilitic misanthropic egomaniac.'

Trebor

18:16 / 28.01.06

Often quoted, more often misunderstood.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

20:58 / 28.01.06

Often dismissed as hopelessly insane and misanthropic, Nietzsche was an extraordinarily well-balanced individual when compared to his sister.

Mourne Kransky

00:47 / 29.01.06

My sister's a bit of a babe, no?

ONLY NICE THINGS

04:31 / 29.01.06

Thread on Nietzsche here.

Mordant Carnival

19:56 / 29.01.06

(This is a rather slight thread for the Headshop, I'm afraid, esp. since we've already got a discussion on Nietzsche. Have put in a move to the Convo.)

Charlus

23:23 / 29.01.06

I would say that Neitzche was instrumental in defining an ulternative viewpoint for people whether it was intentional or not. I have said this due to the fact that it is always better to look at a philsopher such as Neitzche in the a much broader context, i.e. the German Romantics.

He was their inspiration.

astrojax69

03:01 / 30.01.06

fred was a fabulous and very very gifted writer. his prose is sublime and his subtlety of thought - and indeed his thesis of becoming the ubermensch - is rich and inspiring, and is a direct flow of thought from spinoza and schopenhauer, bringing the threads of these thinkers into sharp focus. we will uber come...

love nietzsche, me. my battered copy of beyond good and evil is still one of the favourite things i possess.

is that too many sentences?

Loomis

12:27 / 30.01.06

Don't know how I'm first in with this one:

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'bout the raising of the wrist; a lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.

BlueMeanie

16:02 / 30.01.06

IMHO, I think there are many positive currents in his work, which (unfortunately) usually thought to be solely destructive and nihilistic - a lot of his ideas seem to have been about creating something new after destroying the suffocating baggage of the past. Surely a good thing if you can manage it, although I'm not sure Fred could.

Also, he had a top moustache.

Alex's Grandma

16:23 / 30.01.06

So, Xoc, this sister of yours - Is she quite *hott*!?!

Michelle Gale

16:53 / 30.01.06

Dostoevsky only less so.

Mourne Kransky

17:58 / 30.01.06

My sisters are both about as attractive as I am, Alex. Hott is not the word.

My "sister" sentence was just trying to capture one of little Fritz's personality traits: his relationship with Elisabeth. She was no doubt quite hot, living in her fascist paradise in South America, but doesn't appear terrifically hott. Others may have taken a different view.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

20:27 / 30.01.06

Ah, trust Xoc to confuse everyone by just answering th question!!!

I scream for ice cream

23:19 / 30.01.06

Just stumbled across this site for Nueva Germania - apparently you get

"your own rucksäcke containing study materials, Elisabeth Nietzsche's Yerba Maté, ketamine, a CD of Wagner under Golovanov's amiable baton, a DVD of Forgotten Fatherland, and photo portraits of Wagner, Woodard and Nietzsche."

Um, Ketamine?

BlueMeanie

23:49 / 30.01.06

You could use it to sedate a horse and then hug it, emulating the uber-man himself.

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