STUDENTS' RESPONSES TO NIETZSCHE
The first thing I noticed was Nietzsche's overwhelmingly nihilistic tone. This tone prompts me to ask, Why is Nietzsche writing these essays? If the human intellect is as ephemeral and insignificant as he makes it out to be, then why has he taken up philosophy? Was his study of the human intellect a constant struggle, which he eventually declared futile? (J. P. Mohan)
I am very much in agreement with Nietzsche's point (part two of "Morality as Anti-Nature"). It is often the very weakest who impose absolutist and often irrational barriers against that which tempts them most, then hypocritically declare themselves immune. (J. P. Mohan)
Nietzsche suggests that the judgments made by philosophers like Socrates and Plato cannot be true, as they merely express symptoms. This characterization of the Greek philosophers addresses a problem similar to one raised in class discussions of Marx and Freud: both Marxism and psychoanalysis seem to provide only diagnoses and do not prescribe a cure for either social or psychological disorders. (Chris Schatz)
What next?