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In The Gay Science (1882), Nietzsche argued that love was closely related to avarice; they both express the same instinct – the instinct to possess. Deeply wounded by his complicated love triangle with Lou Salom é, he warned against women who were nothing but “little beasts of prey” possessed by lust for pregnancy.
Nov 4, 2020 · While Nietzsche places the active opposition to evil at the heart of the good, he admonishes that the preservation of this crucial purity, this hallmark of greatness, is an immense and delicate responsibility requiring constant vigilance over one’s own heart:
Feb 14, 2017 · Nietzsche’s most striking aphorisms about love appear in Thus Spoke Zarathustra—a work that most casual readers find intellectually dense and, in parts, thoroughly incomprehensible. Nevertheless, he wrote so much about love in this work that it could be renamed Thus Spoke Romeo .
- Shane Ralston
Jun 24, 2008 · “Does anyone have ears for my definition of love?” Nietzsche asks in his autobiography, Ecce Homo (written in 1888): “Love—its method is warfare, its foundation is the deadly hatred between the sexes” (EH 106). Between the sexes and beyond them, love for Nietzsche is a means of attaining domination of the other.
- M. A. Casey
- mcasey@ado.syd.catholic.org.au
- 2008
Love in the West has long had an anguished relation to nature and world.1 This anguish has been expressed, in particular, in a deep dilemma that has, implicitly or explicitly, beset love from its earliest, Greek and Biblical, sources: Should the highest love affirm the worldly or repudiate it? Should.
Aug 26, 2004 · Rather than tolerate (even welcome) suffering, he will seek relief from hardship and devote himself to the pursuit of pleasure; rather than practice what Nietzsche calls “severe self-love”, and attend to himself in the ways requisite for productive creative work, he will embrace the ideology of altruism, and reject “self-love” as ...
More generally, then, Nietzsche holds that various traits, behaviors, and ideals that morality typically holds in high regard—humility, love of one’s neighbor, selflessness, equality, and so on—are all open for critique, and indeed all are on Nietzsche’s view found wanting.
