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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 6 years ago

Nietzsche's noble human is according to him "more the whole beast" with little or no care for the lower class who are slaves and instruments?

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  • 6 years ago

    Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Nietzsche... If you read anything, read "Thus Spake Zarathustra." If you understand it well, then that means you are on your way into the next area of thought that he himself had broken into, though nobody around him understood him. This is similar to an adult living among children and the children being absolutely unable to understand how someone can desire to sit and have a deep conversation about life rather than play with choo choo trains. Very few people understood his work, and even Hitler had used it as an inspiration to drive forward his agenda and incorporate selected writings into his propaganda. There is another form of understanding reality and Nietzsche understood that. I cannot say to what extent since I did not know him personally, but judging by his writings, he had found something along the lines of what Immanuel, Buddha, and Don Juan Matus had found. All of their teachings were misunderstood by those who translated the ideas and this is why is is difficult to gleen real truth from some of these writings, but if you know how to look, it is there. In the case of Nietzsche, he had written his own ideas, though they were shrouded in mystery to those who did not see on the same level that he did. If you would like me to elaborate, please let me know, and if nobody reads this, then thats fine too.

  • 6 years ago

    The philosopher Nietzsche was very negative and a depressing man who had made some good observations about the human condition. That's all.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    6 years ago

    The beast is, and is in a certain state of contentment. No anxiety, no fear, no death, no ambition, no longing; utterly calm and quiet. But unaware, unconscious.

    And ,Very rare another being -The ' noble' being is also contented, utterly at peace, at home; has arrived, the journey is finished.,But fully aware

    And man -the human being has not yet attained that supreme kind of being - the 'divine' being,the 'noble' being. Human being is the state of being 'hanging between the beast being and supreme being

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    My understanding is that the lesser one should be taken care of so that moral questions can be discarded. Maltreatment raises moral questions. Only compassion allows one to transcend them

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    6 years ago

    Forget about his philosophy. Go read something more positive about the human race.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    OK, if that's what he says I'll take your word for it, but what is your QUESTION about it exactly? You haven't asked one.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Yes. What is your question?

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