I recall that Ayn disagreed with the major fundamentals of Nietzsche, but she gave him respect for his contributions to philosophy. Essentially, Niet is rooted in emotionalism and mysticism - his claims are extrapolated from that basis. For example, his famous "god is dead, we killed him and replaced him" is very interesting, but it really just came from his feelings about God, not from any real factual, rational place. And he brings a heavy degree of pessimism, which is fine, but the master-slave idea through a pessimistic lens ends up looking like Nazi Germany.
However, I believe it is important to evaluate concepts for oneself without trying to think of what Rand thought. And Nietzsche certainly was insightful, prolific, and influential - I just believe he was coming from the wrong place to begin with.
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I recall that Ayn disagreed with the major fundamentals of Nietzsche, but she gave him respect for his contributions to philosophy. Essentially, Niet is rooted in emotionalism and mysticism - his claims are extrapolated from that basis. For example, his famous "god is dead, we killed him and replaced him" is very interesting, but it really just came from his feelings about God, not from any real factual, rational place. And he brings a heavy degree of pessimism, which is fine, but the master-slave idea through a pessimistic lens ends up looking like Nazi Germany.
However, I believe it is important to evaluate concepts for oneself without trying to think of what Rand thought. And Nietzsche certainly was insightful, prolific, and influential - I just believe he was coming from the wrong place to begin with.