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Thus Spake Zarathustra is an important philosophical text by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In it he begins his exploration of morality, questioning the assumption of Christianity or Judaism as a basis for morality. He wrote about the "death of God" and the "Ă?bermensch" (superhuman) who would have supreme morality. Ironically, Nietzsche mimics the style of the Bible, fictionalizing Zarathustra as his protagonist.… (more)
galacticus: Deussen was a lifelong friend of Nietzsche. They were students at Gymnasium; both earned Philology degrees; both became professors; but more importantly, both were students of Schopenhauer.
DNF at ~30%. I tried reading three different translations, each with a different feel to the writing, just couldn’t get into it or take away anything from basically any chapter except the beginning. It’s a shame, I generally enjoy reading Nietzsche. ( )
I wasn't sure what I was expecting but it wasn't that. I couldn't stop thinking that he was writing this while picking up silk underwear for Cosima Wagner on Richard Wagner's orders. People simp for this dude? So much stolen from Schopenhauer which he in turn has stolen from Mainlander. Also Calvinism? I feel like that's the real problem here. I feel terrible for him, like. To be that miserable and that filled with self loathing and not even have anything pretty to look at in return. It's kind of a weird sad bad Blake, a weird sad bad Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer hated this book so props to him for that. If I was 12 and read this I'd probably turn into a school shooter too. ( )
My 2nd or 3rd attempt to read this alleged masterpiece. this time as hörbuch. Indigestible. Lots of irritable criticism of his hearers, Moralising from an amoral point of view. A certain rolling elegance to the language.The narrator sounded a bit too old for the part, but perhaps that is what prophets sound like. Am I too old-fashioned, strait-laced, petit bourgeois to get the point? Gave up -again. ( )
If there are any persons who contest a received opinion...let us thank them for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoice that there is someone to do for us what we otherwise ought, if we have any regard for either the certainty or the vitality of our convictions, to do with much greater labor for ourselves. — John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Dedication
First words
When Zarathustra was thirty years old he left his home and the lake and went into the mountains.
Quotations
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
"When the truth has triumphed for once, he has asked what great lie has fought for it."
Last words
Thus spoke Zarathustra, and he left his cave, glowing and strong as a morning sun that comes out of dark mountains.
Thus Spake Zarathustra is an important philosophical text by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In it he begins his exploration of morality, questioning the assumption of Christianity or Judaism as a basis for morality. He wrote about the "death of God" and the "Ă?bermensch" (superhuman) who would have supreme morality. Ironically, Nietzsche mimics the style of the Bible, fictionalizing Zarathustra as his protagonist.
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Zarathustra è un mito grandioso, in cui Nietzsche proietta, in un continuo alternarsi di allegoria e realtà , tutto il suo mondo interiore. La visione dell’uomo che emerge da queste pagine è del tutto inconsueta e rivoluzionaria: la razionalità cessa di essere l’unico criterio valido della conoscenza, l’arte non coincide più con l’ideale della purezza formale e la morale sfugge agli schemi borghesi. Zarathustra è l’uomo rappresentato come confine, la persona che sta dietro la passione e la musica delle parole. Una persona nata da Nietzsche stesso, ancor più nascosto dietro la sua opera, nelle pieghe di una scrittura che è anche una maschera, una forma di seduzione nella quale i pensieri scorrono in figure danzanti e la verità si dissolve in verità molteplici. (piopas)
Haiku summary
Man's a bridge between Animal and superman. I've a big moustache.
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God is dead. Now what? Check out related volumes. Like this one, and this.
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