Sounds like a lot. I did read a bit of history of Nietzsche one time. It was during my stay in the library at the seminary. Naturally, seminarys are for study of philosophy and theology so there was a lot of books on philosophy, Nietzsche, beyond good and evil, God is dead, etc. Albeit I always wanted to read them, but I never did. The little I read gave me an insight of how he (Nietzsche) was always misinterpreted. His mental illness was a turning point I think.
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The seminary: I'm impressed.
Somehow, I never wanted to read Nietzsche. Of course, in college we read bits. In graduate school some more bits. It's not the same as delving into something, is it?
I'm sure he would say I am afflicted with a slavish mentality because I don't rise above the ideals of selflessness on which I was nurtured. Sorry, I do think we are served as a species better by people who can both pursue their own self-interest and also act in the interest of others. Achieving a balance between these two world views is the challenge we all face as we go through life, I think.
The mental illness surely cut short his productive years and also I think affected what he did produce. But, as I explain in the piece, I'm not sufficiently conversant with Nietzsche's work to offer an opinion that carries any weight.
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