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Loading... On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo (edition 1989)by Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann (Editor)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Ecce Homo only ( ) "A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against the author when he praises the second book at the expense of the first ( or vice versa ) and then asks the author to be grateful for that. The worst readers. --- The worst readers are those who proceed like plundering soldiers: they pick up a few things they can use, soil and confuse the rest, and blaspheme the whole. Value of honest books. --- Honest books make the reader honest, at least by luring into the open his hatred and aversion which his sly prudence otherwise knows how to conceal best. But against a book one lets oneself go, even if one is very reserved toward people." Nietzsche said it best with these remarks and more. I would be lying a bit if I said I fully digested, understood, and incorporated the text into my understanding of the world, but Nietzsche’s general feeling seems to be that our morality hinders us from fully appreciating the joy, pain, and horror of everyday life. Mankind’s essential “will” is at the core of our existence and modern morality has undermined that will. I did find, however, that reading the text out loud with the proper inflections and phrasing helps in following his arguments (thankfully, the missus was out of town this weekend). If you simply read it to yourself, your eyes will glaze over and your brain will beg for some channel surfing. All that aside, the book was very interesting in that it contained many of the primary arguments against theism. Kaufmann’s translation is very good, with a great deal of intertextual notes helping to translate the Greek etymological sections that litter the opening books. If you’ve got a free couple of days, this one is worth a shot, if only to get your mind off vampires and vapid dialogue. http://lifelongdewey.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/170-on-the-genealogy-of-morals-by-... no reviews | add a review
The great philosopher's major work on ethics, along with Ecce Homo, Nietzche's remarkable review of his life and works. On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) shows him using philsophy, psychology, and classical philology in an effort to give new direction to an ancient discipline. The work consists of three essays. The first contrasts master morality and slave morality and indicates how the term "good" has widely different meanings in each. The second inquiry deals with guilt and the bad conscience; the third with ascetic ideals--not only in religion but also in the academy. Ecce Homo, written in 1898 and first published posthumously in 1908, is Nietzsche's review of his life and works. It contains chapters on all the books he himself published. His interpretations are as fascinating as they are invaluable. Nothing Nietzsche wrote is more stunning stylistically or as a human document. Walter Kaufmann's masterful translations are faithful of the word and spirit of Nietzsche, and his running footnote commentaries on both books are more comprehensive than those in his other Nietzsche translations because these tow works have been so widely misunderstood. No library descriptions found. |
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