For a guy who's entire worldview was completely, perversely wrong, and who lost his mind because of it, Nietzsche was amazingly insightful at times, wasn't he?
It's because while he was wrong, he was consistent. He followed his premises all the way into the madness into which they led. He didn't balk at the void like the pathetic New Atheists who want to have their cake and eat it too. He performed for us the service of a man who ventures into a deep, dark place and tells us what it's like so we don't have to.
Huh -- me, I find him rather inconsistent -- especially since, by his own admission, he wasn't trying to write to clearly understood -- but by the same token, sometimes hitting on the truth.
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Date: 2010-04-03 07:00 pm (UTC)It's because while he was wrong, he was consistent. He followed his premises all the way into the madness into which they led. He didn't balk at the void like the pathetic New Atheists who want to have their cake and eat it too. He performed for us the service of a man who ventures into a deep, dark place and tells us what it's like so we don't have to.
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