Was Friedrich Nietzsche a failure?

[rudkin852]

I mean the philosopher guy not Freddy Nietzsche hot dog salesman.

[Yamantaka]

A bit of silly question to start with. He offered some interesting thoughts and perspectives to ponder, but still I wouldn't take him as the captain of my ship. It's in the conclusions where I find very little common ground with him.

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he taught us that socialism is bullcrap, and socialists picked him as socialism-friendly philosopher. if that's not top kek, nothing is, and nothing will ever be.

[Aspalax]

How do you measure a man? He was not able to create a coherent philosophical system. His ideas are conflicting and open to multiple interpretations, to the effect that his works can be seen as almost an exercise in style without substance. He is usually associated by most people with the most destructive ideology in history. But his name is well known, he is spoken of in reverent tones, even by his enemies, and you cannot have a proper philosophical education without having at least some knowledge of his work.
Achilles or Hector? Lion or man? Hector is better, do we need Achilles? Nietsche is a bit like Achilles.

[rudkin852]

Origineel geplaatst door Yamantaka:

A bit of silly question to start with. He offered some interesting thoughts and perspectives to ponder, but still I wouldn't take him as the captain of my ship. It's in the conclusions where I find very little common ground with him.

But you did not define why it was a silly question.

[Yamantaka]

Origineel geplaatst door rudkin852:

Origineel geplaatst door Yamantaka:

A bit of silly question to start with. He offered some interesting thoughts and perspectives to ponder, but still I wouldn't take him as the captain of my ship. It's in the conclusions where I find very little common ground with him.

But you did not define why it was a silly question.

Don't mind me. I just think that philosophy in general is more about particular thoughts, theories, concepts and so on... A question here is about persons failure without substance, which is hard to define as whole. There are so many sides in his story and in his thoughts that defining a failure or success in general is not a question I find accurate or pleasant to start with.

[trousers]

I could make a really long effort post here but someone would yell at me for being correct on the Internet or something and it would start a big fight and nobody would be polite any more and the human race would be forever doomed to stand there and scream into the void until the aliens finally come along and completely ignore the weird yelling planet and just eat our damn sun before returning to their home planet of Reallylongrunonsentence.

So I'll be short and snappy. Better yet, I'll be strictly on topic.

He may have died early, but he shared interesting ideas with the world, and managed to make something resembling a career out of it. His ideas live on after his death. He is still frequently quoted, misquoted; read, and misread. That's something few people ever achieve. By that metric, he is not a failure.

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Dr. Lord Captain Sir Horse II MP, Esq, BA (Hons), KBE, Expert In Holistic Posting