Anyone here read Nietzsche ?

[Tycho- Taylor's Version]

In the final analysis, I think for the Nazis Nietzsche was really nothing more than a propaganda opportunity/tool.

Kaufman's footnotes are particularly critical of the Nazi interpretations. Actually I'm assuming that's where you got the other info too, because it's pretty much exactly what he wrote in the intro to my Nietzsche anthology

Thanks for the reply.

Np.

 

[Johnny_Mo]

Why, because of such Nazi-friendly Nietzsche quotes like:

"No, we do not love humanity; but on the other hand we are not nearly "German" enough, in the sense in which the word "German" is constantly being used nowadays, to advocate nationalism and race hatred and to be able to take pleasure in the national scabies of the heart and blood poisoning that now leads the nations of Europe to delimit and barricade themselves against each other as if it were a matter of quarantine. For that we are too open-minded, too malicious, too spoiled, also too well-informed, too "traveled": we far prefer to live on mountains, apart, "untimely," in past or future centuries, merely in order to keep ourselves from experiencing the silent rage to which we know we should be condemned as eyewitnesses of politics that are desolating the German spirit by making it vain and that is, moreover, petty politics:

 

[Spoken]

sooo good

 

[Johnny_Mo]

Kaufman's footnotes are particularly critical of the Nazi interpretations. Actually I'm assuming that's where you got the other info too, because it's pretty much exactly what he wrote in the intro to my Nietzsche anthology



Np.

Truthfully, I can't remember the particular translation(s) of Nietzsche's works I read years back and I've only read a few works of his all the way through cover to cover. It may well of been Kaufmann (especially if his is the authoritative version as I was too ignorant at the time to shop, as it were, for a "proper" translation so I probably had whatever was the best selling version). He was the first proper philosopher I can remember getting into and I think the reason why is simple: his work seems to be the most immediate and widely digested in popular culture of all the philosophers. Like I can remember the hot, artsy chick in 12th grade calculus class asking me one day what I was reading, "Nietzsche? Awesome, I read him too."

So I think it's nigh time I rediscovered and explored his writings and I might look for this particular anthology. I'll probably start with the works I haven't yet read.

 

[m0353]

Yes!

Read Ecco Homo and the Portable Nietzsche
Had to watch a marathon of South Park after finishing Ecco Homo to make me laugh again.

Found his God is Dead quote to be very interesting. His Will to Power argument is a very interesting perspective on humanity (and even humility)

 

[Tycho- Taylor's Version]

So I think it's nigh time I rediscovered and explored his writings and I might look for this particular anthology. I'll probably start with the works I haven't yet read.

I believe this one, which I have:

And the Portable Nietzsche mentioned above are all of his published works done by the same translator. Don't hold me to it though.

 

[Spoken]

A period before 'because 'is poor grammar. You may want to abandon grammar trolling.

 

[Malas]

A period before 'because 'is poor grammar. You may want to abandon grammar trolling.

But it's not necessarily grammatically incorrect, and that's a question mark anyway.

 

[KOQ24]

A period before 'because 'is poor grammar. You may want to abandon grammar trolling.

seriously, complaining about spaces after the comma on an internet forum is ridiculous

 

[Spoken]

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/can-you-start-a-sentence-with-because.aspx

Because you come off as someone who has no idea about Nietzsche if you don't know how to write something very simple.

Looks like a subordinate and main clause to me!

As can be shown clearly in a rewrite:

You come off as someone who has no idea about Nietzsche, because you don't know how to write something very simple.

Excuse my unintentional language! The intent of 'poor' did not mean 'wrong,' but rather, not preferred. Clearly I have a humanities degree.

That said, I appreciate your correction and you may continue trolling TS for his lack of spaces, an annoying thing indeed.

pz foo