Women, idealism, and the mirror in Nietzsche

Abstract

This text seeks to interpret two lines of a Nietzschean sentence that concerns women. It is an interpretation of aphorism 86 from the book Beyond Good and Evil, which asserts a contempt of women for women and presents the idea that the contempt of real women is not identical to the contempt of Christian men, because they are directed in different directions. The idea proposed is that, unlike the Christian man who when he despises man also despises himself, the contempt of true women is not the contempt of women for themselves.