[sao desi]

His writings seem sociopathic to me.

How influential a writer was or is he?

[khaiser turian]

Towards the end of his life, Nietzsche suffered from Brain Cancer
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education...-syphilis.html

Prior to this though, I think he just wanted to create a new philosophical method, rejecting reason and argument

[JCC-MGS]

Sociopathy is a bit far, Nietzsche was just a bit of a moody nobhead

[sebastienlewis]

No. He was just wrong.

[mimx]

Sociopathy specifically excludes philosophy, so I would guess not if you're basing it on his work.

[TCD23]

Let me hear every single one of the people who have never even read the texts by him to say he was either moody or wrong.

What was so sociopathic about him according to his haters?

[mimx]

(Original post by TCD23)
What was so sociopathic about him according to his haters?

Clearly calling someone sociopathic as a way of criticizing an entire philosophical standpoint is meaningless. I suspect it's a comforting mechanism for those that are upset by it but don't have the wherewithal to construct a more appropriate response.

[Ups7]

Nietzsche is dead. - God

[Martyn*]

His writings were sometimes tinged with madness. Nietzsche was able to think the impossible and expand the horizon of what can be imagined, and sometimes his philosophical and litreray utterances seem to us to be completely bewildering and sometimes downright cruel. If you read Safranski's book on Nietzshe, you will see why Nietzsche thought the way he did. Nietzsche's philosophy can be summed up with one word: power. Nietzsche wanted absolute mastery over himself. That's how he went mad towards the end of his life.

[CUFCDan]

Nietzsche is brilliant.

All those who say he is 'wrong' obviously miss the point of Nietzsche. And I would not necessarily suggest he was about 'power'; that was one aspect of his philosophy but to summise his whole philosophy within that is negligent.

It is no wonder he went mental. He spent most of his time alone, and was what I would suggest a complete masochist (non-sexually), drawing almost self-satisfaction from pain and suffering.

I am probably (I use probably because I'm not a scholar, and I could well have misinterpreted him, and he was purposefully enigmatic throughout his books) a Nietzschean. Any claims to his Nazism is incorrect, in my opinion. He did not think that there was a 'right' or a 'wrong'; thus the Nazi assumption that the Jews were 'wrong' for society, or rather that there was a good society at all, is opposed to Nietzchean philosophy.