The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

The indispensable madman

Nietzsche

He was a crackpot and an absurd drama-queen, a critic of the racism and nationalism of his time who nevertheless inspired unknown numbers to dream that he and they were supermen, born to rule the vast majority of humans who were themselves born for slavery.

So much that he wrote deserved to be and has been regretted.

So much is just vacuous bombast.

But all the same he is must reading for anyone who would understand morality and especially for anyone who wants to, or thinks he has, seen through morality.

See for example, his preface to The Dawn.

It is no surprise, perhaps, that Mencken adored him.

But Red Emma?

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