Nietzsche said people betray themselves for the sake of their good name all the time. You can feel this. It seems to center in your solar plexus when you say something or do something that is not virtuous. Then you’ll disintegrate, and then you’re weak and you can feel that. Then you’ll cover it up with a bunch of rattling arguments, trying to convince yourself and other people that what you were doing was actually okay, but you know and it’s your rational arrogance and authoritarianism that forces you not to drop your stupid presuppositions and just pay attention to what your being is revealing to you.-Jordan Peterson
He was in a medically induced coma because he coudln't deal with his drug addictions, and when he finally came back after like 2 years all he did was hock his stupid books.
Not saying that your quote is wrong but it's really hard to take it on faith when he's the one giving it.
Nietzsche’s commentary on dogmatism and truth, and the arguments he put forward in this area are incredibly insightful.
I’m sure many of us would agree with this quote:
All things are subject to interpretation, whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Nietzsche was a promoter of skepticism and independent thought, and saw the use of authority to control truth as being a despicable tyranny. If you read his work you’ll see most of his criticism in this area directed at organised religion, but that’s simply due to the fact that at the time he was writing, it was the church who abused dogmatism and authority to control the masses.
I think, philosophically speaking, his shortcomings were not understanding the role faith plays in a human life. And by faith I mean faith in the things you believe, not necessarily in religion. But his commentary on truth is very well founded.
When I was young his declaration of "God is Dead!" was a nature step up the stairs of progress. The older I got I found the truth was he was lamenting the loss of God. I personally don't believe, but i do know that a strong core of values is important and I can look at religious stories as I can at any mythology.
We've shown as society that even if you take the church out of religion, we'll impose a new one. The "Woke" crowd has their own religion now and its just as dogmatic and oppressive as anything they claim to fight.
I imagine a fair few readers here would be put off by is disparagement of religion, and I personally don’t agree with plenty of what he said. But I’ve always viewed his work as having a couple of different core ideas in relation to truth. The first is his assessment of the problems you run into when you attempt to determine what is true, especially relating to dogmatism and authority. The second is how he thinks a life should be lived in light of this.
His criticism of dogmatism, which he typically applied to the church, can be equally applied to modern science worship, social Marxism, “fact checking/misinformation”... and he made some very compelling arguments in his criticism. In regard to how a life should be lived, I think Kierkegaard made some much more compelling argument than Nietzsche did.
He was in a medically induced coma because he coudln't deal with his drug addictions, and when he finally came back after like 2 years all he did was hock his stupid books.
Not saying that your quote is wrong but it's really hard to take it on faith when he's the one giving it.
Nietzsche’s commentary on dogmatism and truth, and the arguments he put forward in this area are incredibly insightful.
I’m sure many of us would agree with this quote:
Nietzsche was a promoter of skepticism and independent thought, and saw the use of authority to control truth as being a despicable tyranny. If you read his work you’ll see most of his criticism in this area directed at organised religion, but that’s simply due to the fact that at the time he was writing, it was the church who abused dogmatism and authority to control the masses.
I think, philosophically speaking, his shortcomings were not understanding the role faith plays in a human life. And by faith I mean faith in the things you believe, not necessarily in religion. But his commentary on truth is very well founded.
When I was young his declaration of "God is Dead!" was a nature step up the stairs of progress. The older I got I found the truth was he was lamenting the loss of God. I personally don't believe, but i do know that a strong core of values is important and I can look at religious stories as I can at any mythology.
We've shown as society that even if you take the church out of religion, we'll impose a new one. The "Woke" crowd has their own religion now and its just as dogmatic and oppressive as anything they claim to fight.
I imagine a fair few readers here would be put off by is disparagement of religion, and I personally don’t agree with plenty of what he said. But I’ve always viewed his work as having a couple of different core ideas in relation to truth. The first is his assessment of the problems you run into when you attempt to determine what is true, especially relating to dogmatism and authority. The second is how he thinks a life should be lived in light of this.
His criticism of dogmatism, which he typically applied to the church, can be equally applied to modern science worship, social Marxism, “fact checking/misinformation”... and he made some very compelling arguments in his criticism. In regard to how a life should be lived, I think Kierkegaard made some much more compelling argument than Nietzsche did.