The best part about self-styled “Left Nietzcheans” is that they actually do the reading and treat it with subtlety and moral seriousness instead of cherry-picking bombastic aphorisms and practicing the genuinely fascist hermeneutic of literalizing everything.
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“The weak and botched shall perish, and we will help them perish, that is our new philanthrophy”
Wow so subtle, I bet he is talking about loving immigrants and it’s just a metaphor
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The Left Nietzschian crowd must be as suicidal as the Left Classicists.
“Thus, the person of experience and reflection writes history. Anyone who has not experienced life on a greater and higher level than everyone else will not know how to interpret the greatness and loftiness…
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“what I hate is its Rousseauan morality — the so-called "truths" of the Revolution through which it still works and attracts everything shallow and mediocre. The doctrine of equality! There is no more poisonous poison anywhere” -Nietzsche
Totally leftist thinking right?
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“bombastic aphorisms and practicing the genuinely fascist hermeneutic of literalizing everything.”
I haven’t read enough to say what Nietzsche thought about this or that, but this is not good thinking or writing. “Genuinely fascist” is meaningless here.
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So reading the actual words and believing the author meant what he wrote (“literalizing everything”) is a “fascist hermeneutic.” OK, so what are we supposed to do? Read it and pull interpretations out of our asses that support leftist interpretation?
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Nietzsche: slavery is necessary and good, socialism is a herd morality
Left Nietzscheans: He's speaking in metaphors, what he meant is follow your dreams
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The best part about self-styled “Progressive Christians” is that they actually do the reading and treat it with subtlety and moral seriousness instead of cherry-picking bombastic verses and practicing the genuinely fascist hermeneutic of literalizing everything.
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Interesting that you think Nietzsche should be read with moral seriousness in mind. From what I understood a core tenant of his philosophy is that morality represses all that is natural and healthy in man. Did you miss that part in your thorough reading?
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actually, whenever Nietzsche talked about cruelty and contempt - of which he spoke about frequently - he meant sadism and misanthropy. despite meaning something quite different from that, and telling us this directly. similarly, whenever he talked about the warrior spirit and
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“Subtly and moral seriousness” I.e. interpret everything as abstract metaphor so as to draw whatever warped subjective conclusions their tiny little mouse hearts desire.