/lit/ - Literature

I've heard that his sister may have edited the post 1889 works as she was a German nationalist and later National Socialist, is there evidence some of his works are forged or is it liberal bs.

>“War to the knife with Rome! Peace and friendship with Islam!”: this was the feeling, this was the act, of that great free spirit, that genius among German emperors, Frederick II.

Some question why Nietzsche extolled Islam. He respected Buddhism more than Christianity, but stil calles it "nihist" and "decadent". Islam however he has a wholly postive view of. But considering his philosophy, how could he *not* love a heroic religion which extols of conquest, tribute (this is what makes someone "a good king" according to the opening of the poem Beowulf), and taking women as "prizes", while at the same time loving and respectings even birds, plants, and insects and saying a prostitute who got water for a thirty dog was forgiven all her sins while a pious woman who let her cat starve went to hell? Like Nietzsche (but unlike Schopenhauer), Islam understood the Will (Allah's Will) in a very positive sense, being friendly to wealth but at the same time constantly enjoining followers to "spend" and deriding those who don't:

>Those who spend (freely), whether in prosperity, or in adversity; who restrain anger, and pardon (all) men;- for Allah loves those who do good;

>(Nor) those who are niggardly or enjoin niggardliness on others, or hide the bounties which Allah hath bestowed on them; for We have prepared, for those who resist Faith, a punishment that steeps them in contempt;

The Prophet of Islam forged an empire out of feuding tribes and knitted them together with a common legal system. And the character of Muhammed was fierce and hard like the desert itself, showing no hesistation at massacring or enslaving those who betrayed him or violated the law or broke treaties. But at the same time he lacked any low quality sadism, he did not mandate torture for extracting testimony in court, even from slaves.

Retard here with a question. How I understand it(probably incorrectly), an Übermensch is a person who rejects nihilism and creates his own values that affirm life and are not otherworldly and imposes his will of power on things and people. Yet is it said this ideal is impossible for humans to reach. How come?

>>12968466
>What is called Love. The lust of property, and love: what different associations each of these ideas evoke! - and yet it might be the same impulse twice named: on the one occasion disparaged from the standpoint of those already possessing (in whom the impulse has attained something of repose, who are now apprehensive for the safety of their "possession"); on the other occasion viewed from the standpoint of the unsatisfied and thirsty, and therefore glorified as "good." Our love of our neighbour, is it not a striving after new property? And similarly our love of knowledge, of truth; and in general all the striving after novelties? We gradually become satiated with the old and securely possessed, and again stretch out our hands; even the finest landscape in which we live for three months is no longer certain of our love, and any kind of more distant coast excites our covetousness: the possession for the most part becomes smaller through possessing. Our pleasure in ourselves seeks to maintain itself by always transforming something new into ourselves, - that is just possessing. To become satiated with a possession, that is to become satiated with ourselves. (One can also suffer from excess, even the desire to cast away, to share out, may assume the honourable name of "love." ) When we see any one suffering, we willingly utilise the opportunity then afforded to take possession of him; the beneficent and sympathetic man, for example, does this; he also calls the desire for new possession awakened in him, by the name of "love," and has enjoyment in it, as in a new acquisition suggesting itself to him. The love of the sexes, however, betrays itself most plainly as the striving after possession: the lover wants the unconditioned, sole possession of the person longed for by him; he wants just as absolute power over her soul as over her body; he wants to be loved solely, and to dwell and rule in the other soul as what is highest and most to be desired.

was nietzsche right about scientists? are they the theologians of the modern world?

Why did Nietzsche love the French so much?

>>12567089
NO

He was totally autistic, right?

/lit/ was the masculine greek hero obsessed Nietzsche just gay?

>Can't believe in religion anymore
>Flirted with communism and fascism, they don't do anything for me anymore
>Thought I was trans for a while and then it wore off
>Depression meds do an okay job of keeping me from killing myself
>No real relationships with anyone
>Feel myself sliding into alcoholism
Just the little that I have read of nietschze really resonated with me. I'm wondering wear to start from from a self help angle. Im pretty well read and not afraid to tackle the hard stuff. Thanks in advance for any responses