Talk:Friedrich Nietzsche

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I'm thinking

of writing a book entitled The Gay Science: How Darwinism Created Homosexuality, aimed squarely at the fundie market. Wish me luck? --Scherben (talk) 15:26, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

Bertrand Russell's quote

"Thou goest to woman? Do not forget thy whip!" This bit of silliness supposedly led Bertrand Russell to quip "Nine women out of ten would have got the whip away from him, and he knew it, so he kept away from women."

I don't know how literal the quote is (I don't have the book in English), but if anyone wants to check it, it comes from Russell's "A History of Western Philosophy" (1945).

Get yourself to page 693 (isn't amazon preview great?). --Scherben (talk) 19:49, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Philosophy

Is Nietzsche's philosophy a more optimistic one when contrasted to nihilism? 71.112.189.84 (talk) 23:45, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Virgin?

This was new to me. As you'll know, in the past many had claimed that he contracted syphilis - possibly from a prostitute, maybe even a male one, as some story goes. Would explain his later madness. However, science marches on, and some doctors have suggested different diseases as alternative explanations.--Max Sinister (talk) 06:18, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

View of women

Is it possible he was being sarcastic or some other thing, like his views developing over time? Some articles challenge the idea he was misogynist. Like this. One of the points in the article that catches my eye is that he was one of the few to vote in 1874 for admitting women into a university. Chillpilled (talk) 12:58, 1 April 2024 (UTC)