>life, liberty and the pursuit of happinessIs the United States of America a fundamentally Nietzschean enterprise?
>>23316243It preceded Nietzsche, so no. Imagine defining an undertaking as great as that of the United States of America by that mustachioed incel. Kek!
>>23316243"Mankind does not strive for happiness — only the Englishman does that."— F. Nietzsche, "Twilight of the Idols"A slightly odd comment, you might think. The Englishman is more usually criticized (especially by Southern Europeans) for being anti-pleasure and delighting in misery. But by "the Englishman" N probably just meant the Utilitarians.
>>23316480It's because Nietzsche was the equivalent of a chud who calls leftists "cucks", while not realizing the true nature of what the English liberalism consisted of; fancying himself as "really hitting where it hurts" while actually only exposing his own inadequacies, much like the chud makes what he thinks is a clever sneer about how people are cucks while secretly the ones he blames are the ones treating the women like shit in ways he couldn't even begin to imagine.
>>23316508Like Nietzsche on Napoleon:>ooh he was such a tyrant he could say to his wife he can have any mistressesshows the level of naiveté we're dealing with here. nietzsche and his fans are children.
>>23316243No.They were basically fans of Cicero and of some English thinker who followed some kind of virtue ethics.The pursuit of happiness was related to "eudaimonia".
>>23316243Nietzsche hated politics and thought people who believed our most pressing existential concerns could be solved with a political solution were morons. There is no such thing as Nietzschean "state".
>>23316243No, it's epicurean.
No, but they come from the same place.
>>23316563Germany?
>>23316480This is true. Happiness is an english thing.>>23316508Waffle
>>23316564Well, yes. But I meant the same impulse.
>>23316559The only correct take
