/lit/ - Literature

Should I read genre fiction or is watching the movie adaptation good enough?

Why is philosophy in /lit/?

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Ludwig
Oh wait

Bertrand Russell utterly dismantles Nietzsche.

>He (Nietzsche) condemns Christian love because he thinks it is an outcome of fear: I am afraid my neighbor may injure me, and so I assure him that I love him. If I were stronger and bolder, I should openly display the contempt for him which of course I feel. It does not occur to Nietzsche as possible that a man should genuinely feel universal love, obviously because he himself feels almost univeral hatred and fear, which he would fain disguise as lordly indifference. His "noble" man -- who is himself in day-dreams -- is a being wholly devoid of sympathy, ruthless, cunning, cruel, concerned only with his own power...

>It never occurred to Nietzsche that the lust for power, with which he endows his superman, is itself an outcome of fear. Those who do not fear their neighbors see no necessity to tyrannize over them. Men who have conquered fear have not the frantic quality of Nietzsche's "artist-tyrant" Neros, who try to enjoy music and massacre while their hearts are filled with dread of the inevitable palace revolution. I will not deny that, partly as a result of his teaching, the real world has become very much like his nightmare, but that does not make it any the less horrible...

>I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceits into a duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die. But I think the ultimate argument against his philosophy, as against any unpleasant but internally self-consistent ethic, lies not in an appeal to facts, but in an appeal to the emotions. Nietzsche despises universal love; I feel it the motive power to all that I desire as regards the world. His followers have had their innings, but we may hope that it is coming rapidly to an end. (pages 767-773, A History of Western Philosophy)