Why Everyone Hates Nietzsche

every profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than misunderstood friederick nicher is perhaps one of the most controversial philosophers in history his influence stretches from art to ethics to existentialism and more and he managed to annoy a whole heap of people in the process in fact every time I post a video about nature there are people in the comments saying how much they hate him so today I thought we would take a look at some notable critiques of the German philosopher and explore how he became such a magnet for heated arguments gets ready to learn whether n was a tyrant how he was misunderstood repeatedly throughout the 20th century and how different his ideas truly were to anything we are likely to believe today as always bear in mind that this is just my interpretation of N an d it is by no means the final word on what he said for each of these potential criticisms I'm going to first outline the point n made that provoked it then the critique as it's often presented and lastly to what extent this critique is based on a misunderstanding or a caricaturing of n's position so with that out of the way let's begin by looking at the foundation for much of the controversy surrounding n his unique take on morality itself One n the immoralist perhaps one of ne's best known but also most controversial ideas was his analysis of human morality and specifically the way he thought Christian and more egalitarian forms of morality were fundamentally based on resentment in both his Beyond Good and Evil and on the genealogy of morals n aims to give a practical analysis of morality that is he's not so much concerned with what ethical system is true because he doesn't think that an ethical system even can be true instead he wants to examine why our moral system has come to be the way it is and uncover the psychological mechanisms which and he noticed that many ancient texts specifically praise things like physical strength power and skill that our own morality largely based in Christian ethics did not so much do pointedly he thought these ancient thinkers did not venerate things like pity or gentleness and saw that a healthy dose of Pride rather than humility was the order of the day rather than saying I am a sinner in constant need of God someone like Achilles instead said I would choose glory and have the skills to achieve it well Nea thought that the rise of Christianity fundamentally changed the moral landscape of Europe and that the resultant morality fundamentally stemmed from weakness and resentment as it's presented in the genealogy n thought that in a sort of premoral age those who were strong would naturally emerge as an elite this is not quite the more refined idea of power over oneself that he uses elsewhere but instead a more straightforward ability to enact your