rx7m9nf27te3xsc (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

parts of the documentary, that is.

rx7m9nf27te3xsc (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Excuse me for being so dumb but as for questioning the existence of god. It has been done a long time before Nietzsche.It's been a while since a have seen this video. Can you advise which parts i should review again?

damnbeavers84 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

"I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us. Perhaps we shall have to colonise the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there." - Reg Hollingdale.

damnbeavers84 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

In a time when we are still apparently getting to grips with the full moral implications of marketplace capitalism, this shying away is perhaps not surprising ('...to push what is already falling'). For a serious dissection of N's thought try Arthur C Danto's 'Nietzsche as Philosopher', and Eric Heller's 'The Importance of Nietzsche'.

damnbeavers84 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The overall ad hominem arrangement of this documentary is a backhanded compliment to the man and testiment to the fact that his ideas are still dangerous to controlling elements in our society (editors, BBC, Boards of Directors, Church of England, etc). The acid test of any philosophy is to make its best possible case then set about dismantling it - starting with its strongest points. Perhaps this is the difference between TV audiences and serious students.

burningborsh (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

My god can beat up your god.

theprophet20 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Nietzsche strikes me as being rather like The Wizard of Oz! The contrast is notable between his philosophy in which he thunders forth his doctrines of the Ubermensch, Zarathustra, The Will to Power and so on, but when the curtain is drawn back it reveals him in his personal existence as the weak hypochondriac he was, furiously compensating for his own timidity... Carl Jung observed of him that, "He preached the yea, but lived the nay".

FriedrichNietzsche2 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Future mankind will thank him for his philosophy.

FriedrichNietzsche2 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This documentary is set up by opponents of his philosophy to undermine it. And they're doing it very subltly, I have to admit.

FriedrichNietzsche2 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Just read Nietzsche, never read ABOUT him or watch documentaries about him. This documentary is biased and bad.