1. Is it possible to transform will to power to will to love? What would be the actual difference between someone willing power and another willing love despite all? Perhaps the former is driven by fear whereas the latter is free to be vulnerable?
2. Does philosophy have a language of vulnerability?
3. "What really is it in us that wants "the truth"?
4. We do not recognise truth even when facing it. What does it tell about us?
5. Are all values dependent on cultures?
6. One has only two options. Either kill God or be God himself. But without God, how can life itself be good? Why should it be good?
7. Why do we want truth? What is the value of wanting truth? What's wrong with not seeking it?
8. Which one is closer to a condition of life, truth or untruth?
9. What do Stoics mean by 'live according to nature'?
10. What does Nietzsche make of soul?
11. How does intention conceal rather than reveal?
12. What's the relation between suffering and the religious nature that he talks about?
13. "Man wants woman to be peaceful - but woman is essentially unpeaceful", " When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality. Unfruitfulness itself disposes one to a certain masculinity of taste; for man is [...] 'the unfruitful animal." What do I make of this?
14. "That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil." True or false?
15. "The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night." True or false?
16. "One no longer loves one's knowledge enough when one has communicated it." Yes, what's up with this?
17. "The vanity of others offends our taste only when it offends our vanity." How do I get out of this labyrinth of misanthropy?
18. What is the rational ground for morality?
19. Can morality stand without a concept of God?
20. Do I agree with a view that sees the world whose essence is will to power?
21. The desire for possessing people is telling of how misguided our desire is. How can one speak of freedom while advocating this concept?
22. How is being moral related to being mediocre?
23. Are all kinds of obedience out of herd-mindedness?
24. Is the spiritual independence of individuals incompatible with society?
25. What does Nietzsche say about compassion? What's the point of literature for him?
26. What is philosophy's attitude toward science?
27. What does it mean when he says that one can do philosophy only through experience?
28. Why so misogynic?
29. Why is the discourse about gender equality shallow to him?
30. Is he predicting what's going to happen to the Jews in Germany? Is he encouraging? or warning against it?
31. Is exploitation really just the way things operate?
32. Can suffering make you more knowledgeable?
33. Isn't he romanticising a hermit's life?
34. Who is a philosopher?
35. Is he renouncing his thoughts that were once new but are not any more? Why obsessed about newness?
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