Posted by Fabian on July 18, 19100 at 12:49:14:
In Reply to: Prejudices posted by Laura on January 07, 19100 at 06:31:46:
The philosophy of life Nietzsche 'develops'may be the reason Nietzsche gets 'personal' quite a lot. But why take it (so) seriously? Is he really discriminating women? Look to the other hand: When Nietzsche writes about friendship in (especially) "Also sprach Zarathustra" and
"die Fröhliche Wissenschaft" he's not connecting friendship with ual preferences. Besides that, two of his best friends (though not for life!) were women: Cosima Wagner and Lou Salomé.
I don't see a reason to explain Nietzsche's so called prejudice historically, unless you're a historian or social 'scientist' or even a psychologist. Philosophically for me the explanation Your Gadfly and Laura (1/07/2000, so not Laura Nitzschke!) is not interesting, so what if there were the evil women around him? There were evil men too. It's a new prejudice to explain Nietzsche's philosophy in a historical way. A huge 'Seinsvergessen', Heidegger would say, a wrong 'Geworfenheit'.
What Nietzsche remarked on women in particular (just like he did on jews, christians, germans, et cetera) is to be extrapolated to the whole of humanity in general. The whole culture is in a metaphysical crisis since thruth has no longer a fundamental ground. That's the crisis Jack Ouille is refering to if I understand him/her well.
So even if Nietzsche formulated the philosophy of life that seems to touch us so deeply, especially when reading his books, I wouldn't p the judgement 'prejudice!'. The most simple argument for that, is the fact that we don't even know whether he is joking or not; maybe the remarks on women are a big metaphor.
That's not a philosophical argument either, but it's effective.