Justin Richards
Jul 30, 2017 · 1 min read

I entirely disagree that Nietzsche’s thinking is not relevant, especially psychologically, in the second section I plan to highlight certain limitations of dialogical thinking that led to the death of Socrates, and to the disdain of thinkers for active political life, to the mind/body split, and eventually to the destruction of the whole greek realm of appearance. Nietzsche was the first thinker to call our attention back to the greek realm of appearance where there is no absolute truth, to condemn the mind/body split and to affirm life.

The Platonic insistence that there is a truth over and beyond the way that the world appears to me has affected the so-called progress of the Western Philosophical tradition from its beginning. And I plan on showing just how relevant Nietzsche’s assessment of Western Philosophy is.

The Nazi’s were terrible scholars, picking and choosing sentences, absent the contextual information that made these sentences make sense, in order to bolster their opinion. Nietzsche himself decried mass movements and antisemitism, and the Nazi’s ignored these aspects of his thinking, as well as many others.

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