nietzsche

In fact, Nietzsche was strongly anti-German nationalism and anti-Anti-Semitic, which lead to a fallout with his idol, Wagner.

Besides, saying Marx brought the khmers rouges is like saying Nietzsche brought the nazis.

I think it's sweet that he managed to include a Nietzsche title without (apparently) realizing that he's describing the ubermensch.

Just compare him with simple and practical Hegel or Nietzsche for example!

Someone read far too much Nietzsche that week.

Somehow that makes Nietzsche Family Circus even better.

> Besides, saying Marx brought the khmers rouges is like saying Nietzsche brought the nazis.

I have thought about this quite a bit and I believe that this particular pairing, Nietzsche with Family Circus, is at least especially good (if not uniquely good).

The argument was destroyed by Hume before it was even put forth, ridiculed by Nietzsche (BGE 11, a very entertaining passage), and then had all its foundations removed by Quine in Two Dogmas.

I'd encourage anyone on HN to go directly to Plato if they want real philosophy, or at least jump back to Nietzsche (Schopenhauer as Educator) if they want an entertaining and tongue-in-cheek iconoclast whose ideas merit real thought.

While he predates Nietzsche, he is the perfect embodiment of the "ubermensch" that Nietzsche espouses in "The Will to Power".

Nazi "philosophy" (mostly misinterpreted Nietzsche) isn't the sine qua non of fascism.

As Nietzsche famously stated, "God is dead".

People convincing themselves that they need to stay out of trouble and play by the government's rules is what Nietzsche would call internalising the slave mentality, and Foucault "self-policing."

Yes, the series is inspired by Nietzsche's concepts to a large extent.

Nietzsche observed that madness in individuals is rare but in parties, groups, and eras it is the rule.

Nietzsche was co-opted by his sister (who was a proto-National Socialist) and was strongly misinterpreted.