Friedrich Nietzsche: Difference between revisions

He was famously rebuffed by every woman he approached, never had a genuine [[romance]].<ref>https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1305/did-nietzsches-philosophy-arise-from-his-lack-of-success-with-women/</ref> After his death, it was claimed that he died from syphilis he contracted from a hooker at a brothel, but this theory has since fallen into disrepute, the claim being popularized by a prominent academic who blamed Nietzsche being partially responsible for crafting the ideological underpinning of the the Nazi movement, and therefore being indirectly responsible for the holocaust.<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3313279/Madness-of-Nietzsche-was-cancer-not-syphilis.html</ref> His philosophy contained many misogynistic phrases, some would argue as a result of the rejections he experienced at the hands of women.