Posted by Kolja on February 14, 19100 at 08:32:30:
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.
In "Beyond Good and Evil" 231 Nietzsche says: "One finds early certain solutions to problems, which are just to us strongly convincing. Maybe then we call this our 'persuasions'. Later on one sees in it only footprints to self-knowledge, signposts to the problem that we are, to the big foolishness that we are. (...) After saying this it may be allowed to my to tell some truth about the "woman in herself" - provided that one knows now, how much it is only MY truth -"
Nietzsche grew up in a house with five women and no man. That was the environment where he found his 'persuasions'. It is clear that you as a woman must be angry about it, but maybe you can forgive Nietzsche? We should not jugde a genius by his all-too-human mistakes.
Kolja