http://anarktikos.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] anarktikos.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sophiaserpentia 2003-05-09 10:41 am (UTC)

The funny thing about Nietzsche

is that, by his very nature, he jibes with no-one's ideology. He despised systematizers - indeed in his estimation the "will-to-system" is a sign of a lack of integrity. From this (http://www.frostburg.edu/dept/phil/forum/PhilFilm8.htm) page which I'm still reading:

"Nietzsche explicitly refused to develop a philosophical system, suggesting that individual, seemingly disconnected analyses, expressed in short, well-written aphorisms, are more honest and insightful than lengthy, scholarly treatises which tend to bend everything to fit a pre-conceived theory. (Thus, his writings may sometimes be self-contradictory. The way to read Nietzsche is not to figure out how the many things he wrote can be fitted into one abstract formula, a procedure that would be more appropriate for such philosophers as Plato or Kant, but to consider every one of his pieces as a thought experiment which succeeds or fails on its own.)"

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