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Nietzsche On The Genealogy Of Morals

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No serious thinker has done more harm to the Jewish people than Friedrich Nietzsche. Following his death, Nietzsche’s writings served as an inspiration and philosophical justification for Adolf Hitler and Nazism. Quite paradoxically, Nietzsche was far from being an anti-Semite; in fact, he Nietzsche was considered to be one of the more pro-Jewish writers of his era. While in the second and third essay of On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche’s position against anti-Semitism seems to be clear, comments within the first essay can easily be misconstrued as anti-Semitic. In light of all he writes in his On the Genealogy of Morals, the Nazis were wrong to regard him as one of their
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