Nietzsche, Inequality and Empathy
“Pain, loneliness, walks, bad weather — that is my routine.”
Friedrich Nietzsche’s correspondence was rarely cheerful.
Much of Ronald Hayman’s Nietzsche: A Critical Life is taken up with details of the philosopher’s failing health. His sight deteriorates. He has tremendous headaches. His stomach hurts. He spends innumerable days in bed.
He adopts increas…