Sorry if this is a repeating topic, but I figured this is the best place to ask
While talking about philosophy with some comrades of mine, they got somewhat agitated when I mentioned him, I never personally read anything of his work, but apparently he is a nazi and not worth reading
Is there any truth to this statement or is it just bullshit?
The Nietzsche question
Jose Clark
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Camden Clark
It's bullshit. Nietzsche is basically Stirner but edgier and more misanthropic. I wrote a paper on it.
Zachary Howard
neat, I'll give it a read. what are you studying?
Juan Reed
Political science and history.
Isaiah Ortiz
don't listen to them, the neetch is great. i recommend the gay science especially.
i used to think this way, too, but nietzsche is so much more
Nathan Myers
He's a plagiarizing incel, just go read Stirner user.
Matthew Garcia
Steiner is fucking stupid. People should be serving for the good of the community, not themselves. Like capitalism, Stirner’s ideas are extremely selfish and only focused on bettering onself at the expense of the community.
Levi Moore
Knee-Chee hated nazis and other nationalists, his sister tried to paint his philosophy as being way more reactionary that it really was. He's actually pretty based. His stuff on why suffering is an important aspect of humanity and the concept of amor fati are really cool.
Dominic Baker
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It's bullshit. Nietszche praised jews and their culture in his books if you read them; when his sister got married to an anti-semitic nationalist he was so disgusted that he didn't attend her wedding. He was so disgusted by what germany and germans were becoming that by the end of his life he claimed that he was descended from Polish nobility, which, at the time, was the equivalent of apostasy (he was actually Prussian and descended from Lutheran priests.) He was, for the most part, sick most his life suffering from syphillis and brain tumors, so he was kept taken care of by his sister, she took his works and changed them to appease Hitler and so he paid her. Despite him being insane, he attempted to tutor his sitser in philosophy, but discontinued; he said that his sister was a brainlet literally incapable of doing philosophy.
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Nazis latched onto his philosophy because he talks of an ubermensch, the superman, the overman, which falls in line with the nazi ideology. However, Nietzsche's conception of the ubermensch wasn't biological, but ethical. The ubermensch was the person who would transcend master-slave morality and use their abilities for the good of humanity, anyone can be one regardless of race. At one point he talks of a "blonde, blue-eyed beast" as an example to strive for…he was talking about lions.
Michael Watson
The community is worthless if it isn't able to be selfishly maintained by its participants.
Although Stirner's ideas are only focused on bettering oneself, bettering oneself in his context includes the bettering of your comrades, since they are both extensions of your own capacities and your greatest means of expression. An egoist loves his society because it is his society, and only wants the best for it. He wants his comrades to be pleased because he can share in their joy.