Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche's Opinions

Religion Is hope good? Disagree Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man. The Nature is Nasty Pitch   Edit Pitches 01 Jan 1878    Source Is suicide morally acceptable? Agree Natural death is destitute of rationality. It is really irrational death, for the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel shall exist. The pining, sottish prison-warder decides the hour at which his noble prisoner is to die. ... The enlightened regulation and control of death belongs to the morality of the future. At present religion makes it seem immoral, for religion presupposes that when the time for death comes, God gives the command. Edit Pitches 01 Jan 1880    Source Ethics Is free will an illusion? Agree ...an error called "responsibility" [rests] on an error called "freedom of the will." Those evil actions which outrage us most today are based on the error that that man who harms us has free will, that is, that he had the choice not to do this bad thing to us. This belief in his choice arouses hatred, thirst for revenge, spite, the whole deterioration of our imagination; whereas we get much less angry at an animal because we consider it irresponsible. Edit Pitches 01 Jan 1878    Source Are our enemies innately evil? Disagree At first we call particular acts good or evil without any consideration of their motives... ...then we assign the goodness or evil to the motives... [Then we] go even further and cease to give to the particular motive the predicate good or evil, but give it rather to the whole nature of a man... Ultimately we discover that his nature cannot be responsible either, in that it is itself an inevitable consequence, an outgrowth of the elements and influences of past and present things... Edit Pitches 01 Jan 1878    Source

Psychology Do we work unnecessarily long hours? Agree Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar. Edit Pitches 01 Jan 1878    Source Can we handle the truth? Agree What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. Edit Pitches 01 Jan 1895    Source Christianity Would the world be better off without the Catholic Church? Agree I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian church the most terrible of all the accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worst possible corruption. The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul. Edit Pitches 01 Jan 1888    Source Science Does God exist? Mostly Disagree The Christian concept of a god — the god as the patron of the sick, the god as a spinner of cobwebs, the god as a spirit — is one of the most corrupt concepts that has ever been set up in the world: it probably touches low-water mark in the ebbing evolution of the god-type. Edit Pitches 01 Jan 1888    Source

Comparisons with Other Experts and Influencers

The similarity between Friedrich Nietzsche and each expert and influencer is calculated by looking at how the same questions were answered. These figures are used to calculate conforming, nonconforming, and projected opinions. The accuracy of the analysis depends on Friedrich Nietzsche's coverage, which grows with the number of their opinions entered into TakeOnIt.

Conforming Opinions

Friedrich Nietzsche's conforming opinions are opinions that align with the group of experts and influencers Friedrich Nietzsche typically agrees with.

Nonconforming Opinions

Friedrich Nietzsche's nonconforming opinions are opinions that contradict the group of experts and influencers Friedrich Nietzsche typically agrees with.

Projected Opinions

Friedrich Nietzsche's projected opinions are opinions Friedrich Nietzsche is expected to have if their opinions align with the experts and influencers that they typically agree with.