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Talk:Friedrich Nietzsche (view source)
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:I am pretty sure he wasn't. If he was I can't find any evidence to suggest this either. If you had a source that would be nice --[[User:FreddyK|FreddyK]] 11:38, 9 January 2011 (EST)
:I am pretty sure he wasn't. If he was I can't find any evidence to suggest this either. If you had a source that would be nice --[[User:FreddyK|FreddyK]] 11:38, 9 January 2011 (EST)
== Insanity ==
I discovered this page while playing with the random button. There are a few things in the article that are pretty shallow readings of Nietzschen philosophy. Aside from that though the article equates Nietzsche's insanity with his philosphy. During my undergrad I took a class on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and existentialism. In my class it mentioned that Nietzsche's father also suffered from a brain ailment that he later died from around the same age of Nietzsche. My Professor also went to explain how among philosophers, no one credits his later insanity to his philosophy. "Some argue that Nietzsche was afflicted with a syphilitic infection (this was the original diagnosis of the doctors in Basel and Jena) contracted either while he was a student or while he was serving as a hospital attendant during the Franco-Prussian War; some claim that his use of chloral hydrate, a drug which he had been using as a sedative, undermined his already-weakened nervous system; '''some speculate that Nietzsche's collapse was due to a brain disease he inherited from his father'''; some maintain that a mental illness gradually drove him insane; some maintain that he suffered from a slow-growing, frontal cranial base tumor; some maintain that he suffered from CADASIL syndrome, a heriditary stroke disorder. The exact cause of Nietzsche's incapacitation remains unclear." The article doesn't do him much justice :/