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Kelly Oliver and Marilyn Pearsall have even suggested that Nietzsche's philosophy cannot be understood or analyzed apart from his remarks on women. They opine that, even though Nietzsche's work has been useful in the development of some feminist theory, it cannot be considered feminist per se: "While Nietzsche challenges traditional hierarchies ...
Nietzsche's views on women were at this time more nuanced and less vitriolic than they became". [15] In this section, Nietzsche remarks that the perfect woman is a "higher type of human being than the perfect man: also something much rarer".
The Nazis appropriated, or rather received also inspiration in this case, from Nietzsche's extremely old-fashioned and semi-feudal views on women: Nietzsche despised modern feminism, along with democracy and socialism, as mere egalitarian leveling movements of nihilism.
According to Young, Nietzsche was inviting his feminist friends "to scrutinize his views very carefully with an eye to separating the philosophical from the possibly pathological." [63] And that is what they did, for as Young notes, "Nietzsche's views on women are not merely offensive to modern opinion. They were offensive, too, to progressive ...
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [ii] (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. [14]
75 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes. 1. "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." 2. "We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving ...
Friedrich Nietzsche, in circa 1875. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) developed his philosophy during the late 19th century. He owed the awakening of his philosophical interest to reading Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The World as Will and Representation, 1819, revised 1844) and said that Schopenhauer was one of the few thinkers that he respected, dedicating to him ...
In "Nietzsche and Women", Dohm examines Nietzsche's views on women and critiques his misogyny while employing his arguments to build a critique of biological essentialism. "The New Mother" calls for the transformation of mother–daughter relationships and argues that ideas attributing fixed, intrinsic qualities to women must be abandoned.