| NIETZCHE WAS MENTALLY ILL RAYNER
Posted by father john george  on November 3, 2009, 8:59 am, in reply to "beat this for infallible arrogance decree"
Beginning while Nietzsche was still alive, though incapacitated by mental illness, many Germans discovered his appeals for greater individualism and personality development in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but responded to those appeals in diverging ways. He had some following among left-wing Germans in the 1890s; in 1894–95, German conservatives wanted to ban his work as subversive. During the late 19th century Nietzsche's ideas were commonly associated with anarchist movements and appear to have had influence within them, particularly in France and the United States.[2] Nietzsche even had a distinct appeal for many Zionist thinkers at the turn of the century. It has been argued the his work influenced Theodore Herzl,[3] and Martin Buber went so far as to extoll Nietzsche as a "creator" and "emissary of life".[4]
By World War I, however, he had acquired a reputation as an inspiration for right-wing German militarism. German soldiers even received copies of Thus Spoke Zarathustra as gifts during World War I.[5][6] The Dreyfus Affair provides another example of his reception: the French anti-semitic Right labelled the Jewish and Leftist intellectuals who defended Alfred Dreyfus as "Nietzscheans"[7]. Such seemingly paradoxical acceptance by diametrically opposed camps is typical of the history of the reception of Nietzsche's thought. In the context of the rise of French fascism one researcher notes, "Although, as much recent work has stressed, Nietzsche had an important impact on "leftist" French ideology and theory, this should not obscure the fact that his work was also crucial to the right and to the neither right nor left fusions of developing French fascism.[8]
Many political leaders of the twentieth century were at least superficially familiar with Nietzsche's ideas. However, it is not always possible to determine whether or not they actually read his work. Hitler, for example, probably never read Nietzsche, and if he did, his reading was not extensive.[9] However, the Nazis made very selective use of Nietzsche's philosophy; this association with National Socialism caused Nietzsche's reputation to suffer following World War II. Mussolini certainly read Nietzsche,[10] as did Charles de Gaulle.[11] It has been suggested that Theodore Roosevelt read Nietzsche and was profoundly influenced by him,[12] and in more recent years, Richard Nixon read Nietzsche avidly.[13]
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: Arrogance owed to a certainty of one's own
: faith is a dangerous thing.
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: Faith is not wanting to know what is true
: (Friedrich Nietzche)
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