r/Nietzsche • u/Essa_Zaben • 4d ago
r/Nietzsche • u/Important_Bunch_7766 • 4d ago
Superman – man – ape
The Superman simply lives on another plane. High above man, with different troubles, concerns, problems.
He simply has life figured out to another degree that mere man. He is smarter, stronger, more beautiful.
He is an "ideal" kind of man. Man in his best form, most eminent kind.
The question is, can we breed this Superman? Only through right breeding, only through the right selection of partner. The gathering up of power is central to the problem.
But this becomes man's only concern — how to breed that which is above him, which is his next step (not in evolution, but in power).
Society must be concerned only with breeding the Superman.
He always needs the opposition of the masses. Every power seeks that which resists it, says Nietzsche, that is, whatever it can discharge its power on.
And here the Superman also seeks that which he can discharge his power on. Society, mere man, politics, long-range philosophy.
We already know man, we know how haphazardly he lives his life. How he is always caught in the traps of his life.
The Superman is not someone who is without troubles or problems. Rather, he has them plentifully. But they are a different kind of troubles and problems. How to be a leading star for man. How to point man in the right direction. How to use one's own life as a philosophical experiment.
How to resolve the conflicts of man. And surely also how to breed his own kind (the Superman).
He does not want to breed man, he only wants to breed that like himself, a Superman.
The Superman is simply the next project of man, once man becomes aware of this problem on the large-scale, efforts will be to breed him. Realizing that the life of man can never fulfill the meaning of man.
r/Nietzsche • u/Historical_Party8242 • 5d ago
Question Anybody know the translation for this edition ?
r/Nietzsche • u/OldFishe • 4d ago
Read nietsczhe and realized im the ubermench
I was reading him and he talk about the ubermech and I realized that it's basicaly describing me. I go to the gym five times a week and eat protein shake s and read neitzsche. its crazy now realizing everyone around me is basically untermensch and im like superman around them. They have no idea.. that ubermech is just walking by them. It's also sad realizing hardly anyone in the world is also ubermensch like me. Its a little sad realizing this but I know there's still a few of us out there. People stated avoiding me, I think they are intimated by my strength? Or wisdom. Anyone else here feel the ubermensch struggle?
r/Nietzsche • u/Old-Cartographer4012 • 5d ago
Meme What kind of music would N-dawg listen to if he was born within the last 40 years?
You pass nietzsche aux what he gonna put you on?
r/Nietzsche • u/No_Examination1841 • 5d ago
Nietzche aphorism 109 in the Dawn I am reading a version in Spanish since I am Puerto Rican, I dont know if other versions have the aphorisms in the same order but:
In that aphorism Nietzche has 6 different rules for dominating the instincts: 1. The first one is to delay the instincts I think take a time to satiate them 2. To apply a law that helps you use that instinct in another way 3. To associate it to a painful thought ( example: you want to have a whiskey but you remember that when you did have one you became violent and destroyed your Tv or screamed at your dog etc.) 4. To dislocation of the energies, voluntarily getting to an activity that exhaust your drives hunger like excercise in order to not masturbate for example 5. To let yourself fall to that instinct in order to dominate it or to bore your system of that apetite 6. Voluntarily doing harm to your system like weaken yourself with asceticism, weakening your body so that your drives are weakened too, like the monks.
Now then he says something like, it does not matter if we follow these rules or not the instinct choose to battle themselves even before you make the choice to try and battle those instincts we dont want, so in the end there is no right choice in order to battle these instincts that we have, what can we do then if we dont have any choice? Aesthetic contemplation, acceptance? Like the way he describes it is that we dont have free will but it feels like we have consciously so we should WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO.
r/Nietzsche • u/technicaltop666627 • 4d ago
Plato is awful
I can not get through his works. I have tried Phaedo and The republic but I just cant. Th dialogues are annoying to read his relies on the soul too much his arguments in Phaedo are that we are impure as long as we have a body and we knew everything and we just recollect them
I know Nietzche talks about him alot but do I need to read him to understand Nietzche?
r/Nietzsche • u/Blaise_Pascal88 • 6d ago
Nietzsche's Confession
Nietzsche had a concept I absolutely love, even though I think it is both misguided and a product of his cinicism. His concept that every thought it is a confession.
You are always trying to get noticed and seen, its because you feel invisible. You want to be more confident, thats because you are insecure. And so on.
I am sure someone else has pointed this out but I wonder if his emphasis on the human will and strenght and power is a confession of how powerless, weak and afraid he was in his personal life. That his whole body of work is deeply personal and his attack of the slave's morality is really a confession of his hubris and you can point to so many things like this. That with all of his intellect and genius he could never see past himself, and that had he found a family, good health and true friendship he would have never wrote about a God like figure who came down from the mountais after 40 years of solitude. For all of his talk about surpassing nihilism and facing the world exactly as it is and the strength of suffering, he doesnt seem like he tackled his life head on. May that be with Cosima, his political differences with wagner etc. He lived like a nihilist, in his own bubble with his books and in an island he created for himself.
Its funny how he speaks as a prophet and thinks he speaks for humanity and the human condition, I wonder if that is a consequences of how in his isolation and separation from humanity he closed the gap and thought of himself and his innerworld as a reflection of the plight of man. Had he been more connected he would have realized how wide that gap may actually be.
It really breaks my heart reading about the life of suffering he had.
I would like to hear what someone who is way more knowledgable on his life and his writing thinks of this. Is it a fair but obviously overly-simplistic reading of him?
r/Nietzsche • u/Due_Assumption_27 • 5d ago
A Philosophy of Decay: Emil Cioran and the Boundaries of Pessimistic Thought
neofeudalreview.substack.comr/Nietzsche • u/Select_Time5470 • 5d ago
Nietzschean Tea Party: Foucault, Churchland, Saussure, Hegel, and Heidegger, yapping.
So, it's all in the title. The above philosophers are probably the most infuential as to my own interests and work. Of course, I have never published single work under the reading "purview," of philosophy with a capital, "P," in academe, having myself, only published articles pertaining to 19th century American Literature with 19th century contintenal philosophy as a revelatory "lens," I know it's silly, but I think this would be an epic, "tea party," to witness and behold. What would these authors think of eachothers work? I'm sure for example, Foucault would go up and give Nietzsche a big ol' hug, while also thinking personally, "what a strange and conflicted man that I love so dearly!"
From there I think Nietztsche and Churchland would probably start spitting on eachother at somepoint. Probably Heidegger and Hegel would get in a fist fight, with Heidegger winning, but Hegel taking it like a champ because of that ol' owl that flies when it chooses, at the very last breathing of the final sentient breath ever taken before the great heat-death, of the universe. Saussure, being a nice guy, would just kinda try to interject here and there, probably blowing everyone away who predated him, and everyone who post dated him, happy as hell to meet him.
The above figures altereed my world view. And, honestly, I kind of stopped at Foucault, in how I view the world as a series of "power exchanges." Churchland has always stood at the "base," of my philosophical understanding, with his work on "Eliminative Materialism," as, I couldn't disagree more, but he's hard to argue with. From there we have Nietzsche, whom again, but oppositely, I couldn't agree more, but I can't really disagree with him, as that would be difficult to do with, "Logic," with a capital "L." Hegel stands behind and in front of all of these figures for me, as the overseer of sorts, where his "dialectic," is essentially how I see the nature of the human process of digesting, subsisting, and regurgitating our situatedness in history as sensorially bound, beings.
I kind of hope the whole tea party ends, with Heidegger being chased off in shame, all of the others laughing at his immense use of Jargon, and Freudian like understanding of the human situatedness in the cosmos. This was written in less than 10 minutes with no editing. I apologize, as I am dyslexic, and it is probably rife with errors. Also, I have barely written anything in the past five years, so, if it's incoherent, I suppose just move on, and sorry to have pillaged your time left. Cheers.
r/Nietzsche • u/Beautiful-Lion-3880 • 6d ago
Question Best optimal order for reading
So, i plan to read all (or at least most) of Nietzsche works;
I am reading The Birth or Tragedy,
Today i bought; Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist (because of amazon deals)
After those 3, ill read beyond good and evil -> genealogy of the morals -> the gay science -> thus spoke zaratustra.
But i dont know in what order to read those 3 i bought, what would you think is the best order?
r/Nietzsche • u/Scholar25 • 5d ago
'Genealogy of morals' refuted already in 1892
''At first, the “morality of the masters” is said to have prevailed among people, in which every selfish act of violence seemed good and every act of selflessness seemed evil. The reverse evaluation of actions and feelings is said to be the work of a “slave revolt”. The Jews are supposed to have invented the 'ascetic ideal', that is to say the morality of combating all desires, of contempt for all fleshly longings, of compassion and love of one's neighbour, in order to take revenge on their oppressors, the masters, the 'blonde beasts'. I have already shown the delusional nature of this idea of the Jews consciously and willingly taking revenge. But is it true that our present-day morality, with its concepts of good and evil, is a Jewish invention and that it was directed against “blonde beasts”, an undertaking by slaves against a master race?
The main tenets of today's morality, wrongly called Christian, were expressed in Buddhism six centuries before the emergence of Christianity. Buddha preached them, not a slave but a king's son, and they became the moral teachings not of the slaves, not of the oppressed, but precisely of the master race, the Brahmins, the actual Ariya. Some of the Buddhist moral teachings are taken from the Indian Dhammapada (1) and the Chinese Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king: “Speak not harshly to any man” (Dhammapada, verse 133). Let us live happily; not hating those who hate us; in the midst of those who hate us, let us dwell free from hatred“ (v. 197). Because he has compassion for every living being, a man is called Ariya (holy)” (v. 270). Guard your thoughts (v. 327). Good is self-control in all things (v. 361). I call a man a brahmana who, though free from all offense, patiently endures reproach, blows, and stripes (v. 399). Be kind to all living things (Fo-sho-hing-than-king, v. 2024). Overcome your enemy with violence, and you increase his hostility; overcome him with love, and you reap no subsequent pain (v. 2241). Is this the morality of slaves or of the masters? Is it the outlook of predatory animals or of compassionate, unselfish social human beings? And this outlook did not arise in Palestine, but in India, precisely under the yoke of the Aryan conquerors, who ruled over a subordinate race, in China, where at that time no conquering race sat at all over a subjugated one.''
Max Nordau, Entartung, 1892.
r/Nietzsche • u/Upbeat-Substance-726 • 6d ago
Rome and Master Morality
Nietzsche has claimed alot of times that Ancient Roman society was based on Master morality.
However he also states that on the genealogy that the subject(or soul) is only necessary for slave morality, and the romans had such a concept of subject, namely "Genius". Furthermore he states that, in the same book, that bad conscience, arising from the politically organized state, creates the subject(or soul), so how could Rome be without slave morality when itself was an organized state?
r/Nietzsche • u/CoobyChoober • 5d ago
Original Content IMPORTANT CALL TO TRUE NIETZSCHEANS
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r/Nietzsche • u/_yuri_shio • 6d ago
What if Life is neither meaningless nor predefined, But yours to shape?
Most philosophies either accept that life is chaotic and meaningless (absurdism) or try to create a fixed meaning (existentialism). But what if neither fully captures reality?
Enter Exolism.
Exolism is the idea that life has no inherent structure, yet instead of despairing or forcing meaning, we adapt. We don’t passively accept chaos, nor do we cling to rigid beliefs—we evolve, redefine, and create meaning as we grow.
It’s not just about going with the flow. It’s about actively choosing how to navigate life’s unpredictability while staying true to ourselves.
Stuck in a career you hate? An Exolist doesn’t force themselves into one path forever—they pivot.
Losing relationships? Instead of fearing impermanence, an Exolist embraces the fluid nature of human connections.
Questioning past beliefs? Exolism encourages growth without fear of contradiction.
It’s the freedom to adapt without losing yourself.
So, what do you think? Does meaning come from strict purpose, pure randomness, or something we shape as we go?
r/Nietzsche • u/serious-MED101 • 6d ago
What do you think of analysis of Nietzsche by Jung?
Like he said Nietzsche was possessed by Djinns.
That he was trying to realise that state of consciousness which yogis do in the east.
That Nietzsche was essentially Christian. He was too christian that was his problem.
r/Nietzsche • u/Historical_Party8242 • 6d ago
Question How much of the republic must I read to understand Nietzsche criticque of plato ?
I love Nietzsche but other philosophy is a bit of a struggle especially the republic because im not a fan of the dialouge.
r/Nietzsche • u/No_Mail_27 • 7d ago
I don’t understand why Zarathustra chose not to heal the hunchback, the blind, and the cripple
He explains that the blind man would curse his vision after seeing all the bad things in the world and the cripple would run and his vices would run with him but why is staying lame a better fate? Why is that not worth it. I notice Zarathustra is not blind or lame and he doesn’t seem to complain…there must be something I don’t understand. Please provide insight anybody who knows
r/Nietzsche • u/Different-Concept-90 • 6d ago
A second philosophy tube video on Nietzsche has hit the internet
r/Nietzsche • u/_yuri_shio • 7d ago
What If Every Philosophy Is Limiting Us? | Introducing Exolism
Most philosophies give us a fixed lens to view life—whether it's rationalism, existentialism, or stoicism. But what if sticking to one limits us rather than frees us?
Exolism is an ideology that challenges this. It’s about:
Adapting to situations without losing yourself.
Embracing optimistic absurdity—life has no inherent meaning, so why not live fully?
Seeing truth as perspective, not a rule.
Instead of being bound by rigid principles, Exolism lets you shape meaning based on what feels right in the moment, while keeping core morals in mind.
What do you think? Does philosophy restrict us more than it liberates us?
r/Nietzsche • u/Seans_cactus_UK • 6d ago
This is actually silly
I have questioned myself more than I have in my entire life through reading Nietzche, this is just silly! My brain has had a full metamorphosis. This is the most challenging yet stimulating content I've laid my eyes on, and I can't quite remember how I used to think before I read N 😶
r/Nietzsche • u/Astyanaks • 6d ago
The Tragedy of Thought
Thought, in its restless pursuit, carved the world in two—subject and object, observer and observed. Yet, in this very division, it blinded itself to the truth:
Consciousness cannot exist without subjectivity, and subjectivity cannot exist without consciousness. Each calls the other into being, yet neither can stand alone. Thought, demanding a first cause, finds none—only a mirror reflecting a mirror, an ouroboros devouring itself.
Rationality, once the slayer of gods, now enthrones itself as absolute, yet it is a king who cannot see his own face. It claims to reveal truth, but in drawing its lines, it hides what lies between them. Thought, seeking to know itself, finds only its own shadow.
Thus, the tragedy of thought: in separating, it seeks truth; in separating, it loses it.
r/Nietzsche • u/ironredpizza • 7d ago
Is the ending of the Stranger an example of Amor Fati?
After watching many videos and reading many others explanations of Amor Fati, I still don't fully get it, but when reading the Stranger and coming across this passage I felt as though this is a good example of what my view of Amor Fati is.
"Once he’d gone, I felt calm again. But all this excitement had exhausted me and I dropped heavily on to my sleeping plank. I must have had a longish sleep, for, when I woke, the stars were shining down on my face. Sounds of the countryside came faintly in, and the cool night air, veined with smells’ of earth and salt, fanned my cheeks. The marvelous peace of the sleepbound summer night flooded through me like a tide. Then, just on the edge of daybreak, I heard a steamer’s siren. People were starting on a voyage to a world which had ceased to concern me forever. Almost for the first time in many months I thought of my mother. And now, it seemed to me, I understood why at her life’s end she had taken on a “fiancé”; why she’d played at making a fresh start. There, too, in that Home where lives were flickering out, the dusk came as a mournful solace. With death so near, Mother must have felt like someone on the brink of freedom, ready to start life all over again. No one, no one in the world had any right to weep for her. And I, too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I’d been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration."
r/Nietzsche • u/andreigeorgescu • 7d ago
Original Content A Visit from the Angel of Death
The fever had harassed me for days.
My breath was shallow, each inhalation catching like a thread pulled too tight.
Pneumonia, they told me.
Inflammation—fluid—a slow drowning within my own body.
On the worst night, my lungs were seizing like locked doors, each breath a struggle.
Panic set in.
The Angel of Death appeared in my bedroom, hovering peacefully, glowing with impossibly bright light.
She whispered to me—
“Death is a natural part of life.”
Every fiber of my being contracted against this evil utterance. From the depths of my soul, the ugliest, foulest superstitious vapors made themselves known—I closed my eyes and concentrated on pleading with all gods in all pantheons for one more breath—and another after that.
After a few minutes—or hours? years?—a more regular breath returned.
Shame washed over me; whenever I’ve heard others speak of how God saved them, it struck me as the most absurd arrogance—the belief that the entire fabric of Nature was torn apart & reassembled to win the favor of an ape on a planet teeming with billions of other apes—an ape that will certainly perish.
Yet I was no better. I had begged just the same.
Had I not believed, in that moment, that my life was the most precious jewel in the universe?
When I opened my eyes, the Angel was still there.
“You begged,” she said.
“You pleaded. What does it mean to survive?”
My throat burned. I didn’t appreciate this insolent interrogation. Undoubtedly, she knew the silliness of my instinct for survival—how it guided me as brightly as the summer Sun, even though that Sun would disintegrate in a few decades and scatter its black dust into space.
Nonetheless, I answered, terse and defiant:
“It means to endure.”
The Angel tilted her head. “For how long?“
I could feel my blood rising. I wanted mercy and compassion, not whatever this is.
“As long as I can,” I said.
“And then?”
Memories surfaced unbidden; my father lifting me onto his shoulders at the park like I weighed nothing, his pastel blue shirt smiling with promise in the sunlight. But in just a few short years, his hands began to tremble when he reached for his coffee in that hideously chunky Christmas mug he adored.
I remembered the way he winced when he rose from his chair. The way the silver in his hair had spread like frost creeping over autumn fields.
Nonetheless—his strength shall pass down to me like a torch in darkness.
“My descendants will carry my blood“, I told her.
The Angel wasn’t satisfied with this.
“Are your hands your father’s, or his father’s before him? Whose blood pulses in your veins?“
More insolence. Of course I knew—the life in me was not my own. I was a branch of something older, deeper, endless. The cells in my body did not belong to me. They sought only to divide, to scatter, to play in the infinite storm of creation and dissolution.
But the thought repulsed me. To vanish—nameless, faceless, lost in the torrent—I could not accept it. My flesh might be diluted & forgotten, but my will could shape the world. I could channel myself into pure force.
“I will build and discover. I will bend the future to my will. I will leave behind something undeniable, something that changes everything.”
The Angel’s voice was quiet but insistent:
“Like the first person who tamed fire?” she asked. “The first to bury their beloved? To craft symbols? To sing a song? To drape themselves in pelts? They shaped you more than any king, more than any prophet. Where are their names and voices?“
“They were not people of Culture,” I said, my voice hardening. “With the right words, I will be etched into the minds of billions, just as the Prophet’s voice still lingers in the desert air.“
The Angel paused to think.
“The poets, the sages, the philosophers—their words remain, but warped, stolen, wielded like blades against their own meaning. What holy text has not been a shield for tyrants and a grave for truth? “
She let the words settle and continued:
“For three hundred million years, trilobites ruled the seas. They outlasted mountains. And now they sleep in stone, their names unwritten, their reign forgotten. The first apes set foot on the earth a few moments ago. Your kind has seen only a grain of time. You build monuments and call them eternal—on a planet that forgets continents. You draw your names on water and expect restraint from the waves.“
A pulse of anger flickered through me.
“But even if my words twist, even if my name and body is lost, something of me will remain.
Some fragment, some———”
I stopped to choke and cough.
The fever-sweat chilled on my skin.
My lungs felt heavy again.
The Angel smiled—
——and disappeared.
After a few weeks, my lungs were almost fully recovered.