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The unfathomable amount of times he contradicts himself makes me think that that was the actual purpose of his philosophy, to not take philosophy so serious. This is shown by his attempt throughout his books to remove the seriousness out of life

*destroys philosophy*

>>13548182
>Was it because it contradicted previously held beliefs? Or did it say something startling? Something you had thought about before?

All of that.
It felt like he wrote FOR ME. It feels like HE WAS ME in a previous life. It's soo "haunting".

I read "Human, All Too Human".

OP, read Nietzsche and his critique of science.

I was thinking about why Nietzsche is so popular between people that are not academics. Like, why is he so pop?

And I made a conclusion that whatever is the reason this is good because philosophy is good to everyone.

But some friends of mine said that philosophy isn't for everyone, like, should be read by some kind of elite that can think about it in a critic way.

So it makes me wonder, Who should read philosophy? Only academics, because they have a background of study? Why not normal people and they can make their own opinion about it?

>God is dead

Guess what? Billions of people still believe in God. In fact, religions like Islam just keep growing and growing. God is very much alive, friends

How could one man be so wrong? Why is he still taken seriously by anyone besides edgy atheists?

What was his fucking problem?

Hey anons, i have a question about him. On his theory, is the Death of God a Teleological-Mithological conclusion of society, like the End of History in Hegel and the Socialist Revolution of Marx, or a theoretical analysis, like the state of nature on the contratualists? In general i would say that people tend to think of the first, but i would argument the second.

>>9307875
>That from which we suffer most profoundly and personally is almost incomprehensible and inaccessible to every one else: in this matter we are hidden from our neighbour even when he eats at the same table with us. Everywhere, however, where we are noticed as sufferers, our suffering is interpreted in a shallow way; it belongs to the nature of the emotion of pity to divest unfamiliar suffering of its properly personal character: our “benefactors” lower our value and volition more than our enemies. In most benefits which are conferred on the unfortunate there is something shocking in the intellectual levity with which the compassionate person plays the role of fate: he knows nothing of all the inner consequences and complications which are called misfortune for me or for you! The entire economy of my soul and its adjustment by “misfortune,” the uprising of new sources and needs, the closing up of old wounds, the repudiation of whole periods of the past none of these things which may be connected with misfortune preoccupy the dear sympathiser. He wishes to succour, and does not reflect that there is a personal necessity for misfortune; that terror, want, impoverishment, midnight watches, adventures, hazards and mistakes are as necessary to me and to you as their opposites, yea, that, to speak mystically, the path to one’s own heaven always leads through the voluptuousness of one’s own hell. No, he knows nothing thereof. The “religion of compassion ” (or “the heart ”) bids him help, and he thinks he has helped best when he has helped most speedily! If you adherents of this religion actually have the same sentiments towards yourselves which you have towards your fellows, if you are unwilling to endure your own suffering even for an hour, and continually forestall all possible misfortune, if you regard suffering and pain generally as evil, as detestable, as deserving of annihilation, and as blots on existence, well, you have then, besides your religion of compassion, yet another religion in your heart (and this is perhaps the mother of the former) the religion of smug ease.
Have you read about his life? Suffering "transfigured" the world for him. Also: >>9308878

>be born in the late XIX century
>why are the philosophers of our time so shitty?