Mentally disorientated and unselfish

Nietzsche’s philosophy builds upon equality and people being unselfish and true to one another. He says that philosophers serves people’s superstitious ideas, and not the truth, which seems to annoy him a bit since the truth, for him, seems to be one of the most important building parts to get the society to work. I do agree with this, look at a relationship between man and women, a work place – boss and employee, a family – parents and kids; if the opposites in these relationships are not true to each other it will not work out in the long run and chaos will develop from something that should be a base in your life.

An action is good when it is unselfish. (p119)

Nietzsche’s theories criticise many parts of the human’s life and also the ways human beings choose to live their lives. He says, for example, that religion – Christianity – is something people use to comfort themselves, so he did not actually criticise Christ but the believers and the beliefs. He also criticised the different morals people seemed to base on an abstraction. Nietzsche was a person hard to please; he found negative angels too many aspects of society and his fellow citizens and their ways of believing and moralising their children. But in all honesty I agree with his theories, to some extent. Society is still today not perfect, and will never be, but I think that if higher authorities together with the citizens in their country could cooperate in a friendly, more equal (as in power etcetera) way, less people would probably suffer from less wealthy conditions and starvation – but on the other side of the coin, the wealthy people ruling and deciding over our nations, would probably lose out on quite a bit of their fortune and fame – and I am not sure they would be willing to do this... People with power and money are, in my opinion, far too greedy and selfish. As Nietzsche believes; human civilisation can destroy itself.

Towards the end of Nietzsche’s life, he suffered from mental illnesses, and he died in 1900. Many philosophers have unfortunately ended up suffering from mental problems, whether this is from the philosophy in itself or due to other reasons, I do not know – but I can imagine myself ending up mentally disturbed if I kept philosophising for too long. I better just stick to the facts and build up a boring life based on knowledge and existing facts that I can feel, touch, see and eat.

More information about Nietzsche, his life and his literature can be found here - do pay a visit, it is actually quite interesting and it makes things a bit easier to understand!