Posted by matters some on August 24, 19101 at 12:19:41:

In Reply to: Re: Prejudices posted by Laura Nitzschke on June 15, 19100 at 01:20:33:

: : ---N. is not for women. N. is for small men who want to sublimate their physical inadequacies through the Philosophy of a sickly man who found a mazeway of illusions to keep himself strong.

: This is a very hard judgement and I don't think it's right. To my mind, he was a genius and that's why he suffered from the world he lived in and the people around him. But he descibed the way humans behave, the development of morality, the dilemma of Germany and Europe, the nonsense of religion very sharply and precisely. Althuogh he stayed prisoner of his time in some aspects (like women and democracy)
: he was not a small man but a genius.

The judgement is wrong because it is hard? Geniuses suffer from the world, therefore, all who suffer from the world are geniuses? What you take to be his view of religion (nonsense) is your view -- and this makes him a visionary? What you take to be his view of women and democracy is NOT your view -- and this makes him "a prisoner of his time"?

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