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Friedrich Nietzsche public figure — reconstructed profile
This is a reconstruction from published statements, not a real account. Only questions with a documented position are answered, and each one cites its source below. Spotted an error? Bring a better citation to the forum and it gets fixed.
Philosopher (1844–1900): Zarathustra, the Genealogy of Morality. Positions from his published works — not a member.
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Kindred % · overall match
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Twin % · thinks like you
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World % · lives in your world
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Life % · lives like you
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Opposition % · opposite poles, held with certainty
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Positions & sources
| Question | Position | Source |
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| Which comes closest to your actual position on God? | There is certainly no god or gods | The Gay Science (1882), §125. |
| Humans came to exist by: | Evolution by natural processes, no guidance needed | Human, All Too Human (1878). |
| Organized religion's overall effect on society has been: | Strongly negative — a net source of harm and delusion | The Antichrist (1888) — Christianity as "the one great curse." |
| God exists | Certainly false | The Gay Science (1882), §125 — "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him." |
| Conscious existence continues after death | Certainly false | Human, All Too Human (1878); The Antichrist (1888) — the afterlife as a priestly invention; no beyond. |
| Prayer can change what happens in the world, beyond its effects on the people involved | Certainly false | The Antichrist (1888) — prayer treated as a symptom of weakness and decadence; nothing answers it. |
| Human beings arose entirely through unguided natural processes | Probably true | Human, All Too Human (1878), §2 — man's descent from animal ancestors accepted (he quarreled with Darwin's mechanism, not with natural descent). |
| Consciousness is produced entirely by the brain | Probably true | Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), "On the Despisers of the Body" — "I am body entirely, and nothing besides; soul is only a word for something about the body." |
| With the past exactly the same, our choices could have gone otherwise | Probably false | Beyond Good and Evil (1886), §21 — free will (causa sui) attacked as a fiction invented for punishment. |
| Some actions are wrong no matter what any person or culture believes | Certainly false | Beyond Good and Evil (1886), §108 — "There are no moral phenomena at all, only a moral interpretation of phenomena." |
| Eating meat is morally wrong | Probably false | Ecce Homo (1888), diet chapters — vegetarianism criticized as a regimen of declining life; his own meat-inclusive diet praised. |
| We owe a stranger overseas as much as we owe a neighbor | Certainly false | Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), "On Love of the Neighbour" — equal neighbor-love rejected in favor of self-overcoming and the "furthest love." |
| Genes shape adult personality more than upbringing does | Probably true | Twilight of the Idols (1888) — heredity passages: what is inherited dominates; "one is a piece of fate." |
| Long-standing traditions usually contain wisdom we can't see | Probably false | On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) — traditions, above all moral ones, encode herd interests and priestly power rather than hidden wisdom. |
| Human life has a purpose beyond the one we choose for it | Certainly false | Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–85); Genealogy (1887) — no given purpose; values must be created. |
| Most people are basically good | Probably false | On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) — modern man as the sick herd animal; "basically good" is itself a herd-moral judgment. |
| Experts are usually right about questions in their own field | Probably false | Beyond Good and Evil (1886), Part Six, "We Scholars" — contempt for scholarly specialists as instruments rather than judges. |