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by lizvelrene on March 28th, 2006
by philosopher-saint on August 11th, 2008
Why do we find it so difficult to say yes to life, according to Nietzsche?
by little bit on July 14th, 2008
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What books of Nietzsche are the most important ones?
by 773491 on August 9th, 2008
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Why do most people who justify atheism by using Nietzsche's "God is dead" quote to can't name a single other thing Nietzsche said?
by machinerat on December 13th, 2011
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Describe the whore having got chastity in three words, will you pls?
by prof. mes solzhenitsy on November 29th, 2010
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How important was Nietzsche to modern thinking and philosophy?
by iDisposable on September 5th, 2008
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Well done at answering a weird question.
by Anonymous on July 26th, 2006
Apparently I got him confused with someone else, Nietzsche was the one with a mental breakdown, not one who killed himself.
by Joshua Zambrano on December 7th, 2006
Yeah, I'm not sure who you could have been thinking of.. Most of the truly great enlightenment and existentialist philosophers lived to ripe old ages, including his contemporaries like Satre and predecessors much more damaging to religion (David Hume, Immanuel Kant, etc). My favorite existentialist, Camus, did die young in a car crash. But I hardly see what the point would be even if one of them did commit suicide, as it would hardly invalidate their philosophical arguments.
by lizvelrene on December 7th, 2006
Yes. And remember the character Kirilov in Tolstoy's The Brothers Karamazov (if memory serves) who proved he was undoubtedly in control of his own fate by shooting himself on the spot! A helluva way to win a philosophical argument, no? ;-)
by philosopher-saint on August 31st, 2008