>Mutter, ich bin dumm
What did he mean by this? Also, what is the significance of the incident with the horse in the context of his philosophy? Did he finally realize that pity and compassion are not negative traits but rather are the very thing that makes humanity beautiful?
I don't think Nietzsche ever said compassion is negative. Just slavish.
Kant basically said the same thing, just more positively.
Are you refering to anything specific there or just compassion as a feeling being inherently not free?
>Did he finally realize that pity and compassion are not negative traits but rather are the very thing that makes humanity beautiful?
wow, you are a true woman. now kys
No, u
Why did he rush to protect the horse then?
Stop reading this outdated fuck and graduate high school.
because they are cute
To me, Nietzsche's embrace of the horse represents amor fati. To understand why you have to know what inspired Nietzsche to philosophy. Nietzsche first really engages with philosophy in the mid 1860s' after happening upon Schopenhauer's works in a bookshop. At the time Nietzsche was a disaffected young twentysomething who had just left Christianity behind a few years prior and was desperate for something to fill the void it left in him. He read Lange and was enchanted by the metaphysical speculation. Schopenhauer's light nationalism, which also inspired Wagner, influenced Nietzsche. He was enamored with the military and the manly strengths it espoused. He was happy to serve in the Prussian army when his time for service came.
While serving in the Prussian army, he badly injured his pectoral while leap mounting a horse. The wound refused to heal and he was sent home with it. This was the first of a long chain of illnesses and injuries that plagued him for the rest of his life. He visited quack doctors for remedies which usually ended up making it all worse. I think in the early days of his inquiry he was looking for remedies. He read Epicurus and envied him for his resistance to pain but couldn't quite swallow that pill. It was too weak a way to live for him.
The pain made him stronger, it forced him to engage with the reality that he tried to escape through Schopenhauer, through music. He developed a relationship with Wagner but it was doomed from the start as Nietzsche had this pain which cleared his mind. The sentimentality of Parsifal was merely the last straw.
Nietzsche's first book of philosophy cemented the split. His suffering was his daimon. Much of Human, all too Human was dictated to Gast as migraines rendered Nietzsche functionally blind for days at a time, but even this blindness granted him sight. He would write aphorisms between bouts of headaches and vomiting blood. Though his physical health finally began to improve in his late life, the experience stayed with him forever.
The Eternal Recurrence, that was what terrified Nietzsche, a man who had suffered so much. His recipe for solving this problem was Amor Fati, to love fate. His embrace of the horse at the end of his productive life was a bold statement of life affirmation, as the horse had ultimately been the cause of it all. Without the horse he might have never left the court of Wagner and Schopenhauer. Every ounce of pain was necessary fuel for the story of Nietzsche's becoming and he accepted it as such in that moment before his sanity was robbed of him by what was probably a tumor on his ocular nerve slowly lobotomizing him.
He had a nervous breakdown you dolt