Ask a french who just finished his 3year philosophy studies anything.
Don't ask questions that are too vague.
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Leo Butler
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Julian Harris
Do I need a lot of information and knowledge about other/previous philosophers and their texts to understand Nietzsche?
Recently started to consider reading some stuff from him, but I don't want to order a book from Amazon that I will not understand at all.
I have sat through a few courses of philosophy, but is that enough?
Caleb Allen
Whos your fav philosophy? and why?
Aiden Cruz
What was your programme of study?
Michael Collins
What is your current job?
Adrian Rogers
I'm mainly interested in Metaphysics and Aesthetics, do you know a good starting point? I've never really read philosophy before.
Juan Foster
The difficulty of philosophy is that you need a global knowledge of history of philosophy and ideas in order to understand very well almost any philosopher.
The context with Nietzsche doesn't matter very much because things didn't changed a lot since.
But if you don't know him you will have troubles to understand him because he is one of the philosopher that appropriated himself language the most. Nietzsche's philosophy has its own and very rich vocabulary, he created lots of concept, and there is a core vocabulary that is linked to his philosophy and to these concepts that really have a different meaning compare to the mainstream usage.
Deleuze is considered as the best explainer of Nietzsche but I find him even more obscure than Nietzsche himself...
The Antichrist is the easiest book from Nietzsche, maybe you can start with this one. Don't be surprise if his ideas aren't revolutionary in it, he wrote it more as a stress relief than anything else.
Also just read many things about him on internet, articles, anything, but be always very sceptical about what they say, most people really don't understand all the subtleties of Nietzsche.
Anthony Allen
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Nathan Butler
Nietzsche, because of his critic of occidental philosophy in general, his critic of nihilism, and of language, also because of his deep understanding of human nature.
Jose Jackson
>Aesthetics
Not him but I've taken a fair share of Aesthetics courses (Also a phil student).
Aristotle, Plotinus, Kant, Adorno, Benjamin and Heidegger are probably the most important names. Burke's treaty is probably a good starting point, since it requires no previous knowledge on the subject. The idea of the Sublime is also key for undersanding kantian aesthetics, and hence all of the following theory of aesthetics.
I can't really recommend a starting point for metaphysics as I've mostly done analytical metaphysics. I guess Heraclitus poem would be an appropiate start but you will shit yourself in order to get half of it if by yourself you've never read any philosophy before.