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Posted by Thomas on 7/29/2007, 7:24 am, in reply to "Re: Zarathustra 18: Old and Young Women"
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: I always get annoyed at commentators who turn
: cheeky and supercilious when they discuss
: any aspect of Nietzsche's teaching that
: flies in the face of our reigning
: prejudices, as though every idol is fair
: game except the beloved idols of our own
: age. So Nietzsche's dissent from the
: ideology of gender equality gets him
: denounced as flawed and misogynous,
: inflammatory labels that serve as handy
: substitutes for any effort to understand his
: teaching and evaluate its merits. Not only
: that, but his alleged misogyny gives us
: permission to speculate about how this
: horrible vice may have ruined his prospects
: for a happy life with Lou, which in turn may
: have further inflamed that very same vice.
: Why take these cheap shots instead of
: engaging in careful exegesis and analysis?
: Any possibility of gaining insight into
: Nietzsche's teaching on women and men is
: thereby foreclosed, but at least we get to
: wallow in the conceit that we are somehow
: superior to one of the greatest philosophers
: of all time.
:
OK. In fact Nietzsche's views on women are nothing special, they were the commmon opinions of most in the 19th century. Just a point where to me Nietzsche doesn't stand out. He was a genius, but he was also I think, like us all, an ordinary person with some prejudices of his time. Far more modern was Plato in the Republic, where Socrates boldy postulates an intellectual and philosophical equality between men and women as ruling guardians in his ideal regime...
Thomas
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