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Post by Dirty Santa PaulsLaugh on May 19, 2020 18:45:29 GMT
And of course he absolutely despised Nietzsche and blamed him (and ultimately Rousseau) for Nazism. Russell considered any philosopher with a shred of romanticism dangerous. As I understand it, Nietzsche's alleged proto-Naziism was mostly due to his sister's deceptive editing in which she intentionally suppressed statements about how Nietzsche was firmly anti-nationalist and anti anti-semitism (weird double-negative there). Almost opposite of what happened with Wagner, where the Nazis embraced him even before his explicit anti-semitism came to light. Yeah, Russell seemed to hate idealism and what would become continental philosophy, and I sympathize with his position somewhat, though the poet/artist/aesthete in me has a secret crush on some of them.  I can’t remember in which book, but he is very critical of the German Purity/White Supremacy movement of the 19th century. But his racist sister definitely pushed him around, especially after his syphilis kicked into third stage. By the end of his life, he’s was pretty much gone mentally, but she would bring the proto-Nazis to the hospital to meet him. Very sad ending for a brilliant and unique mind. Any Rand stole a lot of Nietzsche's ideas and perverted them for her Objectivism philosophy.
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