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Subject: Re: Nietzsche Author: Grey Nietzschean [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 05:07:23 04/14/05 Thu In reply to: Psuedo Moodo 's message, "Niesche" on 19:25:56 02/25/04 Wed "I still ponder why atheists like to use Nietzsche to support their arguements. Hitler used the man's philosophies to run the Third Reich (Nietzsche invented the concept of the Nordic Superman). It shows how atrocities are done in the name of atheism, consider that next time you talk about the crusades." (Typos corrected.) Nietsche despised anything that involved following morals constructed by someone else to tell others what to do. The Superman for Nietsche is anyone who rejects what society tells him/her and decides for him or herself what right and wrong are. Once those morals were imposed on others, however, the Superman was no longer following Nietzschean philosophy and thus cannot be called Nietzsche's Superman any longer. Nazism was one of the greatest "sheep" movements of the twentieth century, and would therefore have been despised by Nietzsche. "In Zur Geneologie der Moral (On the Genealogy of Morals) (1887) Nietzsche bitterly decried the slave morality enforced by social sanctions (e.g. Nazism - ed.) and religious guilt. Only rare, superior individuals—the noble ones, or Übermenschen—can rise above all moral distinctions to achieve a heroic life of truly human worth."1 1: www.philosophypages.com/ph/niet.htm [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]