In a message dated 12/11/2008 8:56:23 PM Pacific Standard Time, fredbaud@fairpoint.net writes:

You have to examine the work cited and use reasonable judgment. Are Friedrich Nietzsche's pronouncements (on various subjects) to be considered authority?>>

------------------------ Depends on the article. They are an authority on him, his philosophy, his writings, his time and place in philosophy. When there are issues with whether he is an "authority" in say an article about Superman or Jesus Christ, then it's always safest to simply cite-and-QUOTE what he says, without additional comment.

Not that I would ever quote Nietzsche in the Jesus Christ article, but if someone were to do so, they themselves, as an editor, would not be presenting an interpretation or opinion of their own, but rather that of their cited authority.

So he is an authority, depending on the article. And where it's more questionable, not ... suicide is painless, but rather "suicide is painless" (Nietzsche)

Will Johnson

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