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A review by lupetuple
The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
dark
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
Nietzsche must answer for his insufferable misogyny and heralding of a hypermasculine ideal. Meanwhile there is no ground to this “natural order” he alluded to which favors “the strong” and in which “the weak” and “mediocre” must be allowed to die out.
He was a great fan of Greek civilization to where imperialism and colonialism are justified and logical consequences of the "superiority" of Western culture.
Otherwise, he did offer valuable insights and incisive takes of morality, most damnably of Christianity, of course.
He had reactionary attitudes toward “modernity” and the laborer, enshrining a noble aristocracy from academia to art. It’s strange to read in Zarathustra how he preferred to look to what the “children” will grow rather than what the “grandfathers” have sown, yet he ultimately could not see a positive future for Germany in particular. So what is the truth?
He was a great fan of Greek civilization to where imperialism and colonialism are justified and logical consequences of the "superiority" of Western culture.
Otherwise, he did offer valuable insights and incisive takes of morality, most damnably of Christianity, of course.
He had reactionary attitudes toward “modernity” and the laborer, enshrining a noble aristocracy from academia to art. It’s strange to read in Zarathustra how he preferred to look to what the “children” will grow rather than what the “grandfathers” have sown, yet he ultimately could not see a positive future for Germany in particular. So what is the truth?