What philosophy book do you most dislike?

[SFG75]

I just detest The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche. The view of mental illness is one of uninformed arrogance by labeling it as a product of "weakness." Of course, this goes 110% against the last 100 years of the study of psychology, not to mention breakthroughs in neuro-science. The irony of course, is also present as the author spent a lot of time in an institution. Self-hatred perhaps? The book is also objectionable in its fascist overtones. Nietzsche was very critical of the poor and of those who were discontent with their life. To him, a person should just grin and bear it and put the nation and self-sacrifice above any notion of greatness. Thus Spoke Zarathustra contained this last element to a certain degree, though this one just turns my stomach.

How about you? What philosophy book or philosopher in general makes you turn red...or green?

 

[Zolipara]

Ayn Rand. Yuck.

 

[SFG75]

Not a bad choice Zolipara. Communism is nonsensical, but unbridled capitalism and people out only acting on their own selfish tendencies is equally nonsensical.

Allow me to toss in Plato's The Republic. No doubt about it, the man was an elitist pig of the worst kind. Yes, there are people who are "trapped" so to speak in the historical period in which they live. At the same time, his brand of social engineering through a parsing out process just reeked of totalitarian muck.