How Does Nietzsche's View On Women
Views on women
-Nietzsche wrote "Women are essentially unpeaceful" and "Man is for woman a means; the purpose is always a child. But what is woman for man?" The answer to this question (as well as the question you pose) is difficult to ascertain and there are a number of opposing and complex views on how he regarded women.
-Hence, Derrida claims that for Nietzsche, there is no eternal essence of womanhood.
-Nietzsche’s view of women is explicitly based upon their role as potential mothers - typical statement is "everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has one solution: that is pregnancy."
-It is an exultation of womanhood as maternity and privileges pregnancy as a vital human form of creativity, and every element …show more content…
Women are "mediocre" and they aren't naturally inclined to learn or to understand abstract concepts. To Nietzsche, woman are naturally second class to men, and they have an instinct for a secondary role. Women represent the masses to Nietzsche. They tend to be religious, and therefore also represent the slave morality. They are concerned mostly with self-preservation and are petty. They are not trying to overcome nature, be autonomous, creative or innovative: "How much "slave" is still residual in woman, for …show more content…
But she does not want truth: what is truth to woman? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than truth -- her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance of beauty. Let us men confess it: we honor and love precisely this art and this instinct in women -- we who have a hard time and for our relief like to associate with beings under whose hands, eyes, and tender follies our seriousness, our gravity and profundity almost appear to us like folly. ...
We men swish that woman should not go on compromising herself through enlightenment -- just as it was wasn't thoughtfulness and consideration for woman that found expression in the church decree: [Woman should be silent in church]. It was for woman's good when Napoleon gave the all too eloquent Madame de Staël to understand: [Woman should be silent when it come to politics]. And I think it is a real friend of women that counsels them today: [Woman should be silent about
-Nietzsche wrote "Women are essentially unpeaceful" and "Man is for woman a means; the purpose is always a child. But what is woman for man?" The answer to this question (as well as the question you pose) is difficult to ascertain and there are a number of opposing and complex views on how he regarded women.
-Hence, Derrida claims that for Nietzsche, there is no eternal essence of womanhood.
-Nietzsche’s view of women is explicitly based upon their role as potential mothers - typical statement is "everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has one solution: that is pregnancy."
-It is an exultation of womanhood as maternity and privileges pregnancy as a vital human form of creativity, and every element …show more content…
Women are "mediocre" and they aren't naturally inclined to learn or to understand abstract concepts. To Nietzsche, woman are naturally second class to men, and they have an instinct for a secondary role. Women represent the masses to Nietzsche. They tend to be religious, and therefore also represent the slave morality. They are concerned mostly with self-preservation and are petty. They are not trying to overcome nature, be autonomous, creative or innovative: "How much "slave" is still residual in woman, for …show more content…
But she does not want truth: what is truth to woman? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than truth -- her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance of beauty. Let us men confess it: we honor and love precisely this art and this instinct in women -- we who have a hard time and for our relief like to associate with beings under whose hands, eyes, and tender follies our seriousness, our gravity and profundity almost appear to us like folly. ...
We men swish that woman should not go on compromising herself through enlightenment -- just as it was wasn't thoughtfulness and consideration for woman that found expression in the church decree: [Woman should be silent in church]. It was for woman's good when Napoleon gave the all too eloquent Madame de Staël to understand: [Woman should be silent when it come to politics]. And I think it is a real friend of women that counsels them today: [Woman should be silent about