/lit/ - Literature

I can’t believe he’s the biggest advocate for Fascism.

>inb4 hurrrr durrr durrr his work was intentionally fabricated he actually hated volk nationalism and loved Jews

What does he have to say about mass murder?

>Kierkagaard
Cringe self-help writer
>Nietzche
Cringe self-help writer
>Sartre
Cringe self-help writer
>Heidegger
Cringe self-help writer

>“I have forgotten my umbrella”
What did he mean by this?

>Criticized other philosophers for basing their philosophies on justifications for how they were already living their lives - hindsight analysis
>Considered himself to NOT be doing this because he was outlining ideals that he was not living/found difficult to live up to
>Didn't realize that this was him basing his own philosophy on how he was NOT living his life - i.e. merely the other side of the coin, and that his disposition to do this is no different from the disposition to justify oneself - in that it is automatic and involuntary.
All values & ideas are automatic - you do not have the freedom to choose what you believe. Based on your disposition and experiences, certain ideas are guaranteed to appear compelling to you should you encounter them. Honest philosophy is impossible, rendering all of it confused and useless.
Don't fall for the philosophy meme.

Was he full of shit?

>>13262733
>Dostoevsky, the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.

Has there been a more lucid individual in history? His penetrating insight and genius is remarkable.

>The fake is of far greater value. In its deliberate attempt to be real, it is more real than the real thing.

What did Nietzsche mean by this?

Is truthfulness a kind of essence or epitome of morality? What did he mean by this claim?

"It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to development of reason that immorality."

Do you agree?

It seems fitting with his philosophy that he would welcome them. So why did he say "I am just having all anti-Semites shot." Was it because they were naturally successful, while the Nazis had the resort to governmental power to dominate them? I keep reading that fascists "misappropriated" and "misinterpreted" Nietzsche. Are his morals of natural selection only supposed to apply to individuals?

What's the best introduction to Nietzsche?

>There has hitherto been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not become an apologia for knowledge; on this point at least each of them is an optimist, inasmuch as he believes that knowledge must be in the highest degree useful.

Was he right, /lit/? Has philosophy just been one big circle jerk by nerds who wanted a safe space to chatter about ideas for eternity like women at a book club meeting, pretending to be more important than they are?

>>10740923
The greatest aesthetic theory in the world was formulated by a German though.

Why read any other philosopher when this fucking guy exists, other than in order to understand what this fucking guy was saying? His superiority is so obvious — any random book of his will immediately tell you. And his breadth is exasperating. He will be relevant for as long as society does not entirely collapse and we are forced to start at zero again.