Will to Power - Nietzsche

[~Nik~]

Yes, indeed. Although a lot of people think that he was an anti-Semite, I don't think so. I remember reading in one of his books (The Dawn ???) that by his time, European aristocracies had become weak and it was inevitable to be substituted by a new aristocracy, in which case he favoured the Jews. But he also made anti-Jewish comments in the same book

He was anti-judaic foremost. His philosophy is based on a set of values ​​that the Jews would be among the last to have after their birth.

[Superbia]

That's where his sister pops in.

No she doesn't. Nietzsche's moral ideal, as seen in any of his theoretical works, was per se the opposite of the Jewish Weltanschauung, or any other religion's for that matter. He considered the Jews as such one of the best examples of the slave morals, based on impotence, weakness, remorse, guilt feelings, resentment and hatred towards the world. That doesn't contradict at all the fact that he recognises the ability of the Jews to empower themselves. But how? He also elaborated on the ways the slave morals are capable of prevailing against the master morals, and thus the weak defeating the strong: introducing guilt feelings, remorse and in general dis-empowering the strong and their natural feeling of superiority. That's how a cast of weak, degenerated and nihilistic human beings (the priest human-type) can afirm their will. Because for Nietzsche there is always a will to power who affirms itself: the point is that the weak will can only affirm by negating this world, this life, the joy and superiority of the strong and turning all its inhabitants in weak lambs full of hatred and resentment. But there is also "will to power" in the Jewish priest, just a nihilistic, reactive one. And so the human degenerates into the "last man", a weak, apathic individual incapable of bearing the greatness. And at that, the Jews were masters. It doesn't contradict the previous.

[Knoxwolf865]

Has anyone really read the Will to Power? I slowly worked my way through the work this year. For anyone who is serious I found this video lecture series on youtube helpful for diagrams and elaborations on his ideas.

[youtube]_P3h2KMlxEM[/youtube]

[simple_guy]

I think this guy resembled Hitler. A number of passion filled thoughts and vigorous ideas, but contradicted himself often too much.

[Drawing-slim]

Nietzsche and Wagner are responsible for the holocaust, not Hitler.

[Knoxwolf865]

Nietzsche and Wagner are responsible for the holocaust, not Hitler.

And why is that?

[Knoxwolf865]

I think this guy resembled Hitler. A number of passion filled thoughts and vigorous ideas, but contradicted himself often too much.

Where did he contradict himself?

[Superbia]

Has anyone really read the Will to Power? I slowly worked my way through the work this year. For anyone who is serious I found this video lecture series on youtube helpful for diagrams and elaborations on his ideas.

[youtube]_P3h2KMlxEM[/youtube]

I don't know if this is his work I'd recommend to begin with, as it is a pretty arbitrary selection form a later publisher from just some of Nietzsche's unpublished notes (which as a whole consist of several volumes, they have been recently integrally published in Colli - Montieri edition).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wil...8manuscript%29

I think one must have a previous knowledge from Nietszche's thought to face the posthumous fragments.

[Mortimer]

never bothered with it, seems like loads of crap

[Superbia]

never bothered with it, seems like loads of crap

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Any argument for that statement perhaps?