Book 2

This book includes some rather odd subjects all the while laying metaphors and providing truth on the arts. One of the those rater odd writings is "The Third Sex" (75), which is about how short women are a different kind of sex then tall women. What an odd concept, I mean, the quote from Aristotle is one that is so outlandish i would not expect it to be one of the Greek philosopher. "A small women is never beautiful," I mean, really? I can think of many women, smaller in stature, which are very attractive and beautiful.

In many place Nietzsche gives his opinion of 19th century paining in claiming that the artist always seeks to glorify what he or she paints. So to me, he is claiming that the artist does not see the sadness or negative in equal proportion with that of the good and glorious.

Another section that intrigued me and which causes me to reiterate the question the Holy man poses in 73. "But is it not crueler to let it live?" I would have to pose that question, in way death of a child is never good, but part of me, if i was a believer in heaven, would want that baby to pass on to the next life so it would not have to suffer the life of one dis formed. So is life or death crueler?

In 76, Nietzsche talks of the greatest goal in life is setting a group of rules for everyone to abide. But he claims that even if the rules are false, this accomplishment is still good. i would argue in contrary, if the rules are bad than it is not a good thing that everyone has faith in it. The holocaust is an example of the horrors possible when everyone succumbs to one system that is in itself false.