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So did Winnie the Pooh.
You know that I respect you, but I think there is really no reason to post so many birthdays.
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Nietzsche Still Influences | CBN.com
Try reading stuff Gracie Girl rather than just criticizing.
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NEW YORK, March 5 (UPI) -- Of all 19th-century thinkers, perhaps only Karl Marx surpassed Friedrich Nietzsche in his influence on the 20th century. And not even Marx has exercised the intellectual and spiritual fascination commanded by his unhappy countryman.
As more and more of the political regimes erected under the banner of Marxism repudiate Marx's ideas, it becomes ever clearer that much of what makes the modern world modern also makes it Nietzschean.
Nietzsche's glorification of power and his contention that "there are altogether no moral facts" are grim signatures of the age. So, too, is his enthusiasm for violence, cruelty and the irrational.
This is not to say that Nietzsche, 1844-1900, would approve of the societies that his ideas have shaped so profoundly. On the contrary, he would regard both the proliferation of democracy and the triumph of mass media and popular culture with a distaste bordering on horror.
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He is not an easy philosopher to understand without quite a bit of knowledge of other philosophers.