Posted: Jan 14, 2014 12:33 am
by Matthew Shute
UndercoverElephant wrote:
endersgame wrote:
Greatctulu wrote:All of Nietzsche's works, "The Critique of Pure Reason" by Kant, "L'Etre et le Neant (Being and Nothingness)" by Jean-Paul Sartre, "Godel, Escher, and Bach" is an interesting read by Douglas Hofstadter, though I'm not sure it counts as philosophy.


Don't bother with Nietzche. At first it's interesting enough, before you realise he isn't actually saying very much.


I don't agree. I believe what he said becomes more relevant all the time.


Speaking of Nietzsche, I've just stumbled across this film on YouTube. This BBC documentary touches on Nietzsche's personal circumstances and battle to deal with ill health and suffering, the questions he wrestled with, and the Nazis miappropriating his ideas in a distorted form. The film is more biographical than anything (there's insufficient time, given the format, to explore his ideas in much depth). I post it here just in case anyone finds it an interesting introduction.

If Jerôme Serpenti ever pops in again, he can doubtless point out in detail everything they managed to get wrong here.



For Nietzsche in depth, many of his major publications are available at Gutenberg.org. :cheers: