Nietzsche on ‘undesirable’ friendships
<p>It may seem rather strange to be reading Nietzche for insights into friendships, given his limits in maintaining them. However, it would be entirely unwarranted to assume that if he was failing at friendships, he was also incapable of them.</p>
<p>So, what is friendship? Or what isn’t friendship? Perhaps understanding friendship through what it most definitely isn’t, might be helpful. For instance, Nietzsche marks the difference between affability and friendship. Treating the lowliest with respect, without any “arrogance or secret contempt,” with a genuine affability; still doesn’t imply that we wish to be friends with them. Not everyone can be our friend, nor should we see every arrangement as friendship. There are human types with whom it is outrightly unhealthy to be friends with, says Nietzche. Some of these types are -</p>
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