Friedrich Nietzsche

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Is my favorite German philosopher. I love his ideas such as psychoanalysis, existentialism, phenomenology, and hermeneutics.

I have read a few of his works what a mind the man had his take on moral relativism is awesome.

Nietzsche’s philosophy continues to have profound effects on moral theory and practice to this very day.

Who is your favorite philosopher?

David Hume.

ruveyn

Hmm never heard of David Hume I will look him up.

Laozi

I don't have a favourite philosopher, but Nietzsche is one of those that appeal to me and that I find interesting. I got a biography on him from the library yesterday and so far it's really interesting.

David Hume, as far as I can tell, is a traditional English philosopher. They tend to be more analytical. I had a seminar on him last year and it was pretty interesting.

I think my favourite is Plato, most likely because I read him first.

As for Nietzsche, I much enjoyed Twilight of the Idols( I might have the title wrong there?), and earlier this week I was leafing through an archaic translation of Thus Spake Zarathrusta, which I inherited from my grandfather.

I have always been a fan of friedrich nietzsche because he was so morbid in his take on things that in a sick way I enjoy his work.

I like Nietzsche or what I have heard of his work. He's the philosopher I read first back when I was 15 or 16 and I understand that many adolescents get into Nietzsche. Perhaps his limitation for me is that he seems to hold a bit of a 'grudge' but I suppose that grudge is also the great driving force for much of his work.

I take an interest in the ideas of different philosophers as I move through life. As my own perspective changes I take an interest in ideas that might be in line with that. Sometimes I get into the ideas of philosopher's that I've previously found to be pretty uninteresting and irrelevant to me. One of the reasons I want to keep living is so I can keep exploring the world of philosophy.

the works of Nietzsche are a good example of what a philosopher who is a tertiary syphilitic produces.

ruveyn

I have never understood why people call him morbid. I've never come across anything that appears particularly negative. Maybe it's in the interpretation.

Come to think of it, those of you who participated in the "God most likely does not exist" thread might enjoy Hume's "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion"

I agree. For some reason, his work does seem to lend itself to that (mis-)interpretation. Curious, though, since it's really quite the opposite.

His out look on things come across in a morbid way but he was the most important german philosopher until the third reich started twisted his ideas and made them into their image.

Thomas Hobbes.

He is wildly unpopular on both the left and the right, because his theory of human nature is all too accurate and flies in the face of what so many people in this world so desperately want to believe. He is the antithesis of religionists, traditionalists, and secular humanists.

You can draw a fine line between fact and being accurate some times things that seem accurate but later turn out to be not true or fact based with no evidence to back up such claims.

His ideas where dismissed at the time. But centuries later, especially during the 20th century, many of his ideas about human behavior have been proven right by modern science. To say that there is no evidence to back up his claims is a flat out lie.



Nietzsche, on the other hand, is very much the father of post-modernism. He appeals very much to hipsters and the modern american left due to his elitist beliefs and his postulation that truth is relative.