Ok Nietzsche, I know you're an extremely influential man who defined or influenced whole sections of western thought, but come on. Did you really write On The Geneology Of Morals because you didn't like Dr. Ree's book. I mean sure, you can disagree and respond to him, but i refuse to believe that this whole text that is so influential to modern thought was simply a response to this guy's book as "precocious" as it may be!
You say some very intelligent things here, like how "we have never sought ourselves" and how we only want to "bring something home" I still can't fully understand or explain these things that you say in the beginning of the preface, you barely skimming the surface of your arguments. Yet when i read them something clicks and i know there is some form of truth in these tangled arguments.
In other words Nietzsche, give yourself some more credit.
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haha! I like this post. We are all thinking it. Thanks for putting Nietzsche in his place. I do think there is something more to his reasons for writing a book though. Maybe Dr. Ree just provoked Nietzsche to publish the thoughts and beliefs he already had.
I thought the same thing when I read this post. Nietzsche must have really despised another's work, to create a completely re-done version of his own. Most of the time when sometime challenges my thoughts, I listen to their argument, and try to make their criticism constructive instead of sending them a typed paper with my documented thoughts. In my opinion, Nietzsche has earned the right to be called anything but lazy.
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