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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.
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: He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
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Feb 14, 2017 · February 14, 2017. Shane Ralston. 0 comments. The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is probably not the first person who comes to mind when you think about romantic love. For most of his life, Nietzsche was a solitary and lonely figure.
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Jun 24, 2008 · To see love as “a giving of oneself” is to falsify it (BGE 154 and LN 167). Nietzsche was not entirely dead to the reality of love and its deeper dimensions. His preferred alternative form of love was the “noble” type of “passion” produced by the “coercion and privation” of early “aristocratic” cultures (LN 103).
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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.
Nietzsche applied himself to such topics as morality, religion, epistemology, poetry, ontology, and social criticism. Because of Nietzsche's evocative style and his often outrageous claims, his philosophy generates passionate reactions running from love to disgust.
