09-09-2004, 09:30 PM
Any individual can reasonably take 1 of 2 outl looks on the world - "I am" or "I am part". They are both valid perspectives and no dialectic can bridge the gap between the two.
Nietzsche choose "I am" (as did most others we call existentialist.) That makes him bad. "Bad" is of course subjective, but if you believe in the concept of "bad" its hard to find anything worse then the "I am" perspective.
Nietzsche is dumb because he could never come to terms with the simplicity of this perspective, in fact he never quite could even embrace it.
Instead he took ugly concepts build solidly on existentialism and then tried to apply to to a more broad perspective.
Its odd that this 100 years later we still have people still tryng to believe that Nietzsche's conundrum was that the substrates of reality didnt fit his understanding rather that Nietzsche was just confused.
Nietzsche choose "I am" (as did most others we call existentialist.) That makes him bad. "Bad" is of course subjective, but if you believe in the concept of "bad" its hard to find anything worse then the "I am" perspective.
Nietzsche is dumb because he could never come to terms with the simplicity of this perspective, in fact he never quite could even embrace it.
Instead he took ugly concepts build solidly on existentialism and then tried to apply to to a more broad perspective.
Its odd that this 100 years later we still have people still tryng to believe that Nietzsche's conundrum was that the substrates of reality didnt fit his understanding rather that Nietzsche was just confused.