<i>Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture</i>, by Andrew Huddleston

Those of us who see the historical figures we work on as sources philosophical insight, rather than merely interest, will sooner or later run up against question how to handle those parts our chosen figures’ views that are morally objectionable. Nietzsche, and consider him be a source significant face this problem in an especially troublesome form. It is not Nietzsche’s views, when they objectionable, particularly egregiously so (though probably true), nor such objectionable occur within texts with high frequency compared other from history philosophy also true). Rather, difficulty are—in various different ways—very intimately bound what most genuinely important interesting about his work. Nietzsche is...