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12: The Horse-Hugging That Never Happened (And 7 Other Nietzsche Myths)

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

There is a similar sort of audience in fan bass for dostoe s fiction as there is for nica's philosophy. I'm guessing that what we have here is an embellished tale that people then found a sort of coincidence in dostoevskys writing. And i think that's maybe one of the things that helped amplify this story and spread it around a bunch. The idea of nicha in the popular consciousness is as this noholds, barred, vicious, almost savage philosopher who am was? You know, he was an immoralist, and he was for um, you know, the right of the stronger to oppress the weaker.

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