he did not appreciate the need to mourn.
Whether or not THE God is dead or only certain conception of God has been lost,
a significance loss of any kind requires a period grieving.
Harry
Jones Beene wrote:
In order to partially dissent and elaborate on a previous comment yesterday about the "brilliant but controversial German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche".... JR echoed a commonly-heard PC (politically correct) reaction: "Brilliant? In my opinion he was world-class jerk, and I despise the notion "that suffering is good for people."<snip>
Ah...despise him if you must, but understand him first - isn't Übermensch (as FN envisioned it, not as the Nazi's distorted it) really the one-and-only 'final solution' to suffering... or would you have them (the little people) swell the blood-sucking "Idle-Rich-Class" and become the downfall of us all ? <big G>
...and just to be clear about how to best express quasi-cynicism in a vo-post, <big G> means an extra-large smiley - IOW "not to be taken at face value".
Nietzsche was notoriously unread, even during his own lifetime, except by the other brilliant thinkers of the time. A list of his admirers reads like a who's-who of 20th century acumen. However, FN's ideas (in the geo-politics of the era ) suffered irreparable distortion in the hands of his own sister - who for her own purposes twisted his philosophy into full support for Nazism (Hitler had "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" issued to every soldier in the German army for a while). What a perversion! But not for the reasons you might surmise. Übermensch literally means "overman" but which is an earned (possibly engineered) achievement, not a prerogative of wealth or heritage [not to be confused with the man of steel, nor racial (Aryan) superiority].
