<story><title>A new book about Nietzsche: tethering philosophy to the mess of daily experience</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/nietzsches-guide-to-better-living/568375/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>It was partly the fault of the original baity title, but what a trainwreck the bulk of this thread turned out to be. If ever there were an occasion to dust off pg&amp;#x27;s old phrase, &amp;quot;the middlebrow dismissal&amp;quot;, here we have it.&lt;p&gt;Discussions celebrating one&amp;#x27;s own and mutual ignorance, with people shooting whatever cheap shots pop up about a great thinker, writer, and soul, make me cringe to be part of HN.&lt;p&gt;There is a morbid interest in seeing how internet discussions, viewed as a whole, behave like a physiological process—perhaps a digestive organ, turning waste of one kind into waste of another.</text></comment>
<story><title>A new book about Nietzsche: tethering philosophy to the mess of daily experience</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/nietzsches-guide-to-better-living/568375/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hnthrowaway789</author><text>Many of Nietzsche&amp;#x27;s ideas are almost entirely antithetical to the cultural sensibilities of HN so the discussion that you&amp;#x27;re going to get on here is not going to be that great.&lt;p&gt;This piece presents an exceptionally shallow introduction and survey of Nietzsche&amp;#x27;s body of thought. If you get into reading Nietzsche with the intent of learning how to live better you&amp;#x27;re going to have an impossible time.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re interested in reading Nietzsche I&amp;#x27;d recommend first reading more philosophy and history (the things Nietzsche studied) in order to get some context for the things he says. It&amp;#x27;s pretty much impossible to understand what he&amp;#x27;s talking about unless you have that knowledge since his works are (in large part) a critical analysis of the nature and evolution of the modes of human thought and behavior.</text></comment>