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Friedrich Nietzsche (pronounced Nee-cha; not Nee-che) is arguably one of the most misunderstood intellectuals of all time, and for good reason, because a lot of his work contradicts itself––I believe he does so on purpose. Arguably, to allow whomever reads his work to think for himself and not merely accept, on whim, his every insight--a very socratic way of teaching. Nietzsche, in his literature, put forth enormous effort into critically analyzing and, in most cases, attacking institutions and ideologies that perverted man's desire to be an autonomous agent (such as attacking idolatry, dogmatism, and patriotism/jingoism to name a few). As much as he despised these institutions that buried man's desire to be the master of his own destiny, he also acknowledged the significance of their existence, because without knowing plight; suffrage; and mortality, man cannot become better than what he is; he cannot become the Übermensch (man in his ideal form––his plutonic form).
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