"He was born in 1844, in the small city of Röcken in Germany, near Leipzig. And this is very important: his father was a Lutheran minister, and the family was all clergy, Lutheran clergy. And he's bringing up, in a very religious sentiments, very religious family. And in many ways his work is a reaction against the father, and it is a reaction against the kind of Lutheran Christianity he was deeply internalized into. I think this is very important to understand.
...This is a revolt against the father. This is a revolt against what he was brought up to. It is an attempt to find himself. That's what he's trying to get at. And you have to be a little tolerant about him, you know, and his attempt. You did that as well. You were revolting against your parents, and you were revolting against some of the fundamental principles you were born into.
(...)
In '88 he becomes mentally ill. The story of his beginning of his mental illness tells you a lot about him. He is in Genoa, in Italy, and then he walks on the streets, and then he sees a carriage driver beating a horse vengefully. And then he suddenly cuddles the horse, beginning to cry, and his mind is gone. He falls deeply into mental illness. He never recovers anymore. It I think tells a lot about who Nietzsche as a human being was and how much compassion he could have with suffering.
Nietzsche was an impossible person. He'd fall in love with people and then he broke.
Just strong love or strong hatred; there was nothing in between.
© Iván Szelényi
Yale Lectures on Foundations of Modern Social Thought
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...This is a revolt against the father. This is a revolt against what he was brought up to. It is an attempt to find himself. That's what he's trying to get at. And you have to be a little tolerant about him, you know, and his attempt. You did that as well. You were revolting against your parents, and you were revolting against some of the fundamental principles you were born into.
(...)
In '88 he becomes mentally ill. The story of his beginning of his mental illness tells you a lot about him. He is in Genoa, in Italy, and then he walks on the streets, and then he sees a carriage driver beating a horse vengefully. And then he suddenly cuddles the horse, beginning to cry, and his mind is gone. He falls deeply into mental illness. He never recovers anymore. It I think tells a lot about who Nietzsche as a human being was and how much compassion he could have with suffering.
Nietzsche was an impossible person. He'd fall in love with people and then he broke.
Just strong love or strong hatred; there was nothing in between.
© Iván Szelényi
Yale Lectures on Foundations of Modern Social Thought
[link]
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