Posted by Luther Blissett on February 23, 19101 at 19:46:15:

In Reply to: Prejudices posted by Laura on January 07, 19100 at 06:31:46:

: I like Nietzsche very much but I must say I can't understand his prejudices about women. I think his picture of women was influenced by his mother and his sister. Moreover, he was a man of the 19th century and thus had the prejudices common at that time, e.g. that women aren't able to work in science. However, I think it's a pity that his works are in a way damaged by these silly prejudices.

The only thing that is damaged is what you get out of it. If you're hung-up on some fairly conventional 19th-century stereotypes that Nietzsche has about women, then yes, what you get out of his work will be damaged. Nietzsche was not a feminist nor a women's lib advocate. He was a philosopher and a philologist who was concerned with other subjects since, unlike the present date, he did not live in an era when all ideas had to be formulated under the umbrella of the politically correct.

yrs,

Blissett

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