I really don't see what's so earth-shaking in Nietzsche. My personal response to reading him was always basically "meh." He never shook me up on a personal level like Kierkegaard, Heidegger or Schopenhauer did.
Maybe I have a sick soul. :)
--- ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
>
> On 28 Jun, 2007, at 14:38 PM, Peter Ward wrote:
>
> > Nietzsche is somewhat unique among philosophers:
> most have been
> > content simply to convince themselves that God is
> on their side
> > (Hegel, for instance); Nietzsche, however, would
> only be content as
> > God. To this end he succeeded – he went insane.
>
>
> IMHO:
>
> ;-) I have only one bit of warning for Nietzsche
> beginners: remember,
> when you look deep into the Nietzsche, the Nietzsche
> looks deep into
> you! That should be obvious by the overabundance of
> Nietzschean
> clichés and cliché'd readings, but it doesn't hurt
> to reiterate. As
> Heidegger says (I think in one of the two volumes on
> Nietzsche that I
> recommended a while ago -- or perhaps in "What is
> called Thinking")
> the important thing in reading Nietzsche is to get
> past him. He does
> a great job of shaking up the foundations, the terra
> firma of various
> forms of thought/analysis, etc...
>
> --ravi
>
>
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