Reading Nietzsche for the first time

[ProbablyUnloveable]

Im German so im reading him in German and the book I’m reading is „Zur Genealogie der Moral“. It wa delivered just today, so i havent started reading, gonna do it in the evening.

It’s overall my first philosophy book

Do any of you have tips when reading him?

 

[Chud Norris72]

no, but make notes after each reading session

 

[D. B. Gooner]

You will discover you are literally just like the ubermensch guy!

 

[GigaL0ser]

It’s overall my first philosophy book

You should have started better with the Greeks (if you want better to understand Nietzsche) or just with some different authors, bcs Nietzsche is kinda hard to read at first.

 

[nico]

you cant read nietzsche without ancient greeks and previous philosophers.

 

[ANTAGONIST]

Im German so im reading him in German and the book I’m reading is „Zur Genealogie der Moral“. It wa delivered just today, so i havent started reading, gonna do it in the evening.

It’s overall my first philosophy book

Do any of you have tips when reading him?

I read "Antichrist" by Nietzsche

 

[CrimeAndManletism]

You should have started better with the Greeks (if you want better to understand Nietzsche) or just with some different authors, bcs Nietzsche is kinda hard to read at first.

 

[AscendOrDieTrying]

I enjoyed reading “human all too human” from him. Although I agree with the others, it is quite hard to read and I honestly only understood a small portion of what he was saying.

 

[ProbablyUnloveable]

no, but make notes after each reading session

Yeah the book is full of notes now haha

Wouldn’t understand him without though

 

[ProbablyUnloveable]

You will discover you are literally just like the ubermensch guy!

„ubermensch“

 

[Chud Norris72]

Yeah the book is full of notes now haha

Wouldn’t understand him without though

Brtal notepill

 

[ProbablyUnloveable]

You should have started better with the Greeks (if you want better to understand Nietzsche) or just with some different authors, bcs Nietzsche is kinda hard to read at first.

Yeah, well I only read Marcus Aurelius, it’s not actually my first book

Forgot that

 

[ProbablyUnloveable]

Brtal notepill

It’s more fun to read like that though, you like actively read and not passive

It’s also good because of my ADS, wouldn’t be able to concentrate without

 

[ProbablyUnloveable]

you cant read nietzsche without ancient greeks and previous philosophers.

Read like half of it now and yes you can

 

[Chud Norris72]

It’s more fun to read like that though, you like actively read and not passive

It’s also good because of my ADS, wouldn’t be able to concentrate without

Mogs me for having AIDS

 

[Chud Norris72]

It’s more fun to read like that though, you like actively read and not passive

It’s also good because of my ADS, wouldn’t be able to concentrate without

I'm also not paying much attention but It is probably fron all the brain rot i consumed

 

[Rapemaxxer]

You should really take care over what to imbibe and what not to from Nietzsche. He has some really good insights and some very bad prescriptions.

On the one side, his critique of slave morality and his adamant affirmation of strength and will is admirable, but on the other side, he gets too...optimistic in his diagnosis of the future of mankind after the death of god. He believes there will arise new value creators, who forge new ideals in the ruins of religion. I find that to be a very inane idea and not practical at all. One cannot snap new values out of nowhere, our values are products of centuries of shaping and enforcing. Our worldview itself works on inherited notions. Nietzsche gives too credit to our agency when in fact, we can hardly be said to be authors of our own fate.

Nietzsche was also fundamentally a chad worshipper (or at the very least, he glorified genetically gifted people).
He believed that forgiving/forgetting is a sign of strength and that harbouring grudges is ressentiment. Only someone who hasn't suffered much in his life is capable of that. Someone who was born into fortune and hence cannot comprehend why those less fortunate than him feel rage against the world. There's no room for tortured souls and wounded reactionaries in Nietzsche's ethos.

 

[Fatalistocrat]

keep reading

 

[ProbablyUnloveable]

Mogs me for having AIDS

Nigger ADS not AIDS

 

[ProbablyUnloveable]

I'm also not paying much attention but It is probably fron all the brain rot i consumed

Trying to fight against that with book rn

 

[ProbablyUnloveable]

On the one side, his critique of slave morality and his adamant affirmation of strength and will is admirable, but on the other side, he gets too...optimistic in his diagnosis of the future of mankind after the death of god. He believes there will arise new value creators, who forge new ideals in the ruins of religion. I find that to be a very inane idea and not practical at all. One cannot snap new values out of nowhere, our values are products of centuries of shaping and enforcing. Our worldview itself works on inherited notions. Nietzsche gives too credit to our agency when in fact, we can hardly be said to be authors of our own fate.

Wasn’t he actually really scared of the time when god really will be dead and the Slav morality isn’t there anymore?

 

[Chud Norris72]

Trying to fight against that with book rn

Good luck

 

[ProbablyUnloveable]

Good luck

Working pretty good

If you’re struggling with attention span and you’re interested in psychology I highly recommend the interviews with C.G. Jung, they’re really interesting and fix the attention span

 

[Rapemaxxer]

Wasn’t he actually really scared of the time when god really will be dead and the Slav morality isn’t there anymore?

Yeah the death of god and the ensuing nihilism was his central focus, the background of his entire world-picture. He essentially believed that the collapse of religion will lead to the removal of all metaphysical crutches. That's why he came up with the idea of the overman. He believed that the conditions succeeding the death of metaphysics are perfect for the emergence of his ideal overman, a value creator who transcends nihilism and turns meaninglessness into form, suffering into creation.

 

[RandomGuy]