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Originally posted by Gabrielles blades:
In fact, many of his viewpoints were used by germany during WWII as justifications of their war/way of life.
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Corerct - though his teachings were completely and utterly perverted by the German authorities. His ideas were taken and bastardised - and most of the matieral used by them were taken from "The Will To Power", which was never one of his own works but a collection of notes taken by his sister (desperate for fame, and a reconcilliation between the Nietzsches and the Wagners) - which are by and by unrepresentative of his philosophy as a whole, which always had at the heart of it the desire of improving thr life of the individual, and the quest to dispell much of what he saw was lacking in the human spirit - a call to self-revolution.
Frankly, he's the most misquoted, misrepresented and misunderstood philosopher who ever lived.
[ 11-12-2003, 02:15 PM: Message edited by: Jerome ]