Opinion of Friedrich Nietzsche

[Alabama_Indy10]

Opinion of Friedrich Nietzsche...

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Eh.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I was a huge fan of his 10 years ago. Not so much anymore, but I do find that he is quite sober about the consequences of the decline of religion in society, which is impressive for an atheist and refreshing compared to the euphoric antitheism of the New Atheist crowd (though refreshing is a curious way to describe it since Nietzsche was writing 120 years before them). Not sure I can really call him an FF or an HP, but I respect him greatly as a thinker.

[Antonio the Sixth]

HP, but I do thank him for being a brilliant and compelling advocate for a major philosophical perspective that must be fully understood before it can be adequately refuted.

[136or142]

As a philosopher, he found his Nietzsche.

[HillGoose]

Some FF some HP but mostly HP because he wasn't American and so he believed in totalitarianism and race and crap.

[Big Abraham]

HP, but I do thank him for being a brilliant and compelling advocate for a major philosophical perspective that must be fully understood before it can be adequately refuted.

[ingemann]

I’m a religious person, but I still find him interesting, and while I find the HP versus FF dichotomy ridiculous, I would call him FF as he never did anything which made him a HP and most of the negative aspect of his philosophy (outside the atheism) are not part of it, but bastardisation of it by Nazis, Objectivists and clueless nihilists.

[PSOL]

FF, was right about most things. He was also edgy done way right.

[°Leprechaun]

FF, was right about most things. He was also edgy done way right.

yes

I’m a religious person, but I still find him interesting, and while I find the HP versus FF dichotomy ridiculous, I would call him FF as he never did anything which made him a HP and most of the negative aspect of his philosophy (outside the atheism) are not part of it, but bastardisation of it by Nazis, Objectivists and clueless nihilists.

I agree and I didn't find anything that he wrote to be in agreement with Nazism. His sister was a different story and it may very well have been her fault that he was unfairly associated with the Nazis.

(edit: he was a little critical of Christianity, which may be why some Christians don't appreciate him (unfortunate, to say the least)).