Nietzsche

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Nietzsche Anonymous Mon Jun 15 08:18:04 2020 No.15612789 [Reply] [Original]

I don't think we read Nietzsche for his 'opinions' which are often very problematic, e.g. on gender, but as a spur to think for ourselves. Even the fact that there are Nietzsche scholars is to a degree ironic given his comments about scholars are very critical. Reading Nietzsche as a thinker with systematic and consistent views is not to read him well - he seems to detest that kind of system building, as well as 'scholarly' philosophy. I find reading Nietzsche has a lot of highs and lows - some wonderful moments of poetry and profundity, and then some very disappointing and downright offensive arguments as well. I think the angle he takes on the French Revolution is the worst kind of 'philosophy' - reacting to a perceived 'spirit' that is transmitted somehow from a metaphysical 'Judaism' - an interpretation which allows him to dismiss in a sentence all of the actual history/socio-cultural factors and human suffering for the sake of such a reductive theory. All that I would take away from that argument is a) don't philosophize like that b) reflect critically on our ideals and look at where they are coming from - that is to say, for example, that we don't give up on our ideals of justice or equality, but try to cultivate ourselves, so these come from a healthy place, e.g. not from wanting revenge. That way, our struggle for a better world won't be tainted by what we would today call our 'baggage' or something 'toxic'.

I think the term ressentiment, which Nietzsche uses, is quite useful when you observe human behaviour, but it's just that examples of ressentiment that he provides are questionable to me. I noticed a couple of examples of ressentiment myself, for example when one of my peers downplayed the other person's erudition on philosophers, claiming something like: "He reads secondary literature instead of actual works of philosophers, and thus his knowledge of philosophers' ideas is twisted and incorrect." The ridiculous implication of it being - He who goes out and reads a lot actually knows less than me who doesn't have such eagerness to read and gain knowledge. Not that secondary literature cannot create this problem, but his reason for saying it was envy, he didn't know whether the person in question reads the important philosophical works on their own.

Or when one woman justified and rationalized her laziness to herself when listening about other person's hard work and vegetable produce by saying: "Bah, it's all GMO anyway."

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