Posted by Laura Nitzschke on June 15, 19100 at 01:20:33:
In Reply to: Re: Prejudices posted by Your Gadfly on June 13, 19100 at 10:26:44:
: : 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.
: ---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.