Which one?
So German farm boys and urban poor, when they weren't destroying Western Civilization, were sitting in the trenches reading 600 page Faust and analyzing Nietzsche's philosophy.
I would doubt that even 5% of American College Philosophy professors have read both books cover to cover.
Also, with soldiers like that, how did Germany ever lose the war?
Nietzsche was never ever even close to my favourite philosopher. He suffered from some terrible bigotry, for starters.
However, he was brilliant....
he could just look around himself in 1882 or thereabouts and SEE that philosophy and “modern” religion was moving straight towards a fully-atheistic bent....
so that proclaiming “G.. is dead...” was, to a considerable degree, ACCURATE (at least, when interpreted as...G.. is dead insofar as society (or its intellectual and theological leadership) acknowledging and obeying G.....)
in that sense of meaning, Nietzsche was quite accurate.
——in response, of course, Dostoyevsky noted that IF society considered G to be “dead”... then..”all is permitted.” That being Dost’s way of critiquing the atheistic movement....pointing out that it has inevitably horrible consequences
as we see TODAY... with some (Satanic) state legislatures permitting abortions and even outright infanticide (as Obama advocated)....and other very evil laws and patently unconstitutional restrictions or infringements on our individual free will choice
SUMMARY...to quote a third outstandingly-wellknown philosopher of the highest intellectual caliber... we are in Deep DooDoo!
I’m half-way through Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It’s an interesting read.
If you have access to the book, pull up the chapter on tarantulas. It predicts the rise of cultural Marxism. It’s visionary and chilling.
Nietzsche was not anti Semitic. He respected the intellect of the Jews and had no complaint with them.
Christians (largely) respect him because he was the rare brutally honest atheist who knew and dreaded the implications of a culture without God.
I didn't know that atheism was a prerequisite for pacificism. In fact, a majority of Catholic and Evangelical Christians are very much devoted to pacifism. And there's the flip side: Colonialist Putin and Euromonger Merkel embrace Christianity as signatory for their expansionist governments.
So what's the question again? In science, you have focus and isolate.
Serial/Atonal music, a la Schoenberg, was also a direct result of these phi!osophies: the deliberate destruction of the natural and the beautiful.
The result was that the Normals turned back to pre-Stravinsky masters who produced natural, beautiful music.
(The seven-tone major scale is apparently hard-wired into the human brain. Ancient Babylon apparently used it.)