What did Nietzsche say about socialism?
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Nietzsche believed that if socialist goals are achieved society would be leveled down and conditions for superior individuals and higher culture would disappear.
What does Nietzsche say about hope?
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
What were Nietzsche’s ideas?
Themes, Arguments, and Ideas
- The Nihilism of Contemporary Europe.
- The Doctrine of the Will to Power.
- The Perspectivist Conception of Truth.
- Christianity as a Life-Denying Force.
- The Revaluation of All Values.
- Man as Bridge Between Animal and Overman.
- The Doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence.
What does Nietzsche say about equality?
(1)Nietzsche is not opposed to equality per se: he is willing to admit that equality can sometimes be a useful value. 14 He is opposed to equality only when it is put forward as the fundamental value. (2)Nietzsche is an esoteric moralist: he is not demanding (or even suggesting) that everyone should read his writings.
Is hope good or bad?
There’s good hope and bad hope. Throughout history, hope has been viewed favorably, as virtually essential to our welfare. True, many writers have inveighed against “false hope.” But it’s generally been perceived as a positive, almost essential, motivating force.
Why is hope the worst?
Hoping is a natural urge meant to deflect despair, and yes, torment. Of course, you will cease hoping, eventually (either because your wish had come true or because you were deluding yourself for a start), but despairing would have been worse, and Nietzche never got that. The aphorism is nice, though. Sounds deep.
Why is Nietzsche so important?
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. His attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights.
Why Nietzsche is the best philosopher?
He was probably the first person to clearly see that ethical systems were *subjective* in their foundations and were carried by the will of those who best represented these values. He was the first serious philosophical critic and the first real skeptic of the school of platonic thought.
To be fair, I should make a note that Rancière’s project aims at questioning the relationship between the principle of equality and the community, whereas Nietzsche’s quote is essentially an irrevocable condemnation of socialism as an attempt to build a society on the ideal of equality. See also Balzac on equality between human beings.
In the teaching of socialism “a will to the denial of life” is but poorly concealed: botched men and races they must be who have devised a teaching of this sort. In fact, I even wish a few experiments might be made to show that in socialistic society life denies itself, and itself cuts away its own roots.
Is there a German version of Nietzsche’s works and letters?
The German version exist online as a digital edition through Nietzsche Source: learn more about the Digital Critical Edition of Nietzsche’s Works and Letters (eKGWB) .nIn the German Digital Critical Edition, the fragment about socialism quoted above is referenced as followed: NF-1885, 37 [11].
Is Nietzsche’s “vast expenditure of lives” accurate?
Nietzsche wrote down those thoughts on the summer of 1885 (in June or July). It really is tempting to read what he says about the “vast expenditure of lives” as an accurate prediction of what various communist regimes of the twentieth century would eventually turn out to be accountable for.