01:790:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ant-Zen
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If a novel is written by a woman, it"s a woman"s novel, but a man"s novel is a mother. Nietzsche loved dostoyevsky (even though he became very conservative) Spain in the 1400s under isabella i and ferdinand ii, the jews and muslims were persecuted. It was testing how powerful the church could be. It got rid of opponents and created an atmosphere of suspicion that got people to testify against their neighbors, relatives, etc. Employing jesus even though he would"ve rejected their ideas, and doing things that jesus wouldn"t do. This idea is called imminent critique (another example, using marx to attack communism) Showing that the assumptions one makes to base their opinions are wrong. Clear sighted, capable of transforming the world, etc. Then there is the herd or the masses. Identified with democracy (which is opposed by those like nietzsche) Many intellectuals were suspicious of democracy because they thought the masses were irretrievably stupid.