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On the contrary, `what is falling, we should still push.'Institutions`State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters, a hypocritical hound.Church is a kind of State, `the most mendacious kind.'Inequality`Men are not equal. In a sometimes manic delirious style, Friedrich Nietzsche expresses, now vehemently than poetically, his vision on life, man and woman, good and evil, freedom, `natural' laws and institutions (State and Church).LifeReal life is selfishness, the lust to rule, the will to power and sex. War and courage have accomplished more great things than love of the neighbor. With an unforgiving, arrogant, haughty, foaming and aggressive voice, using shining metaphors (sun, moon), pastiches (sermon on the mount) and poems, Nietzsche shouts his anger with and disappointment of the lack of courage of mankind.Some of his viewpoints (the extermination of the weak, his misogyny, his worship of war) are unacceptable.Nevertheless, this is a great text, a cry for freedom, a head-on attack against the fetters of religion and statism, which had an enormous influence on world philosophy, politics and literatureA must read.
How poor man is after all, how ugly, how full of hidden shame.' Man is something that must be overcome. We should prepare the emergence of an `Ûbermensch'.Eternal recurrence (contradictio in terminis)Nietzsche's theory of the eternal recurrence is in contradiction with his wish of the emergence of the `Ûbermensch'. They should be educated for the recreation of the warriors.`I was nauseated by the convicts of riches, by this gilded false mob whose fathers have been pickpockets or carrion birds or rag pickers.'Total disappointment in man, need of the `Ûbermensch'`I walk among men as among the fragments and limbs of men - but no human beings. Aggrieved conceit, repressed envy erupt from you as a frenzy of revenge.'Despise of the multitude, women and the richWhere the herd, the rabble, the cowards, the scarecrows drink, all wells are poisoned.Women are still cats and birds, or at best, cows.
He must destroy the existing values: `Can you be your own judge and avenger of your law. And they should have no right to want to be equal.' The weaker should serve the stronger out of their own will.`You preachers of equality, the tyrannomania of impotence. One should do nothing `for', `in order of'' or `because'. Nor shall they become equal.
They like to crucify those who invent their own virtue for themselves.'One should strangle the `strangler that is called `sin'.' Man should not have any pity. Good and evilMan should create his own laws of good and evil. Beware of the good and the just.
You should know what you are getting. The book is the Walter Kaufmann translation. The translation used in this audiobook is that of Thomas Common.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a thematic compilation of that life long argument which was Nietzsche himself. At least every aspect of American society is gauged toward sacrificing the substance of one's life for mass acquisitions of sustenance made possible through "eternal rights" given to us by some "deity" [The Founding Fathers were all deists who basically made John Locke possible on a societal-basis]. This could be particularly the case if you are a "Christian". Nietzsche wrote this out of extremities of loneliness, solitude, and what he always called his own special pessimism regarding the inevitable personal implosion of the highest ideals. Odysseus' exertions were in vain. However, this does not just mean that the Christian God, Allah or Buddah are no longer believable; something much more apocalyptic is intertwined within this citation.
What one should understand is that in that proclamation by Nietzsche Modern-Civilization--i.e. Nietzsche attempts to tell you why.Incidentally this means that what we need to is to really start creating some newer, fresher and most of all, deeper illusions because Nietzsche will rather gravely impart to you, the truth about life merely hastens death. the passions which religious asceticism labeled as "sin". Both that, and the "mind" were "holy lies" which in becoming recognized as lies consequentially depleted their mysticism which allowed them to be sustained. I'll use some popularly relevant examples; Marriage is a "holy" sanction made possible under God, the Ten-Commandments require a justification through their deliverance unto humanity by God--Good and Evil in short--and many people in the world think of themselves as having been specially singled out by some deity for later big plans "Nietzsche will call this the over-valuation of the human animal". This country for the longest time--now deteriorating--supplanted Christian promises alongside production and distribution of goods. In terms of "searching" I think this is really the thing; there is nothing to search for because humans are value-creating creatures, not value-finding. Humanity has to be brought to the abyss, and must wet its feet in it so to speak [which is what we are doing right now], so it can get back to creating newer, deeper and seemingly more real lies.
For Nietzsche; meaning is formed through pain. the West/Occident since the European Enlightenment & now the world for many reasons--along with all philosophical & consequentially artistic achievements going through Shakespeare, Plato, Parmenides, and arguably even what is referred to as "Homer" are groundless. Now demythologized, the disturbing aspect is that we are all there is. So, basically, this irrationalist and profound anti-liberal gives us rationalists a rational argument for abandoning those "eternal" prejudices like "Reason" which is a derivative of Christian morality.
I'd like to restrict this review to some main points since it is impossible to justifiably represent all of Zarathustra within these confinements:The book will be difficult to faithfully digest. We remember certain poems or movies for the same reason. No one wants to die and it is superfluous to state that achieving the possibility of Death is painful regardless how it is achieved. Nietzsche claims he is about "getting back to the body" i.e. So sacrificing vast amounts of one's life to work on a rational basis for reasonable acquisition of sustenance seemed like a fair payoff since one was going to Heaven anyway.
metaphysically "true" "reality". As the subtitle suggests, the book is not for everyone, in fact many will despise Nietzsche. Of course it is not so simple as merely oneself up by the bootstraps; it requires suffering, the most profound suffering like the seemingly debilitating neurosis that Joyce, Stevens, or Beckett required to give birth to their masterpieces much less the overwhelming enormities of Heidegger or Nietzsche himself. Homer's heros warred and searched under Gods who were puppet-masters of the whole thing. We enjoy certain songs because of how much they hurt us or sooth a preexisting hurt by casting its reflection into the viewer's sight, artistically. In a different sense; Communism failed and Marx consequentially fails, because it wanted to create Heaven on Earth. Human existence is defined by pain and as Heidegger [the heir of Nietzsche] will show, it is also ultimately defined by Death not as an empirical event but as a possibility [of not being-possible] since its "prerequisite" so to speak is pain. Nietzsche attributes this task to the "poets" who deceive with a "good conscience"--the most insight in this respect can be found in his "Genealogy of Morals".
This is something Christianity largely cultivated with its denigration of this world for the other.The point with Nietzsche in regards to the last sentence is that there is no other "world" in which our "minds" [the split between mind/body] transcend into. Parmenides studied Being in relation to an objective i.e. Humans need suffering and consequentially want it; the only trouble for humans is the "Why"--Why does one suffer. This book and the rest of his books, can essentially be thought of in terms of mass-consumption by "the-people" as antidotes for those burdened by what Nietzsche calls "The Spirit of Gravity". Happily and comfortably sustained human existence essentially allows humanity to realize that life is meaningless; there is no greater purpose or scheme that intervenes into this world, which essentially means that there is none for us since we are defined by this "World". Shakespeare operated within a Christian realm. The many complex factors that contribute to this cannot be captured here, but the locus of this "exhaustion" lies in Nietzsche's oft-quoted and misunderstood "God is dead". Plato's Forms were metaphysics "truths" whose Being was "presence".
This philosophical text was interesting. This product was in great condition and arrived on time.
I often remember one with the other. One must know Nietzsche was taught the occult sciences.William Blake comes to mind when he said- Do what you will for lifes a fiction and everythings made up of contradiction-. By the Will To Power- sublimating energy, transforming impressions. Educators.I've been reading Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist. If TSZ resonates with you, beyond a great piece of literature, but something of inspirer to act, research into alchemy. How come Eternal Recurrence is always tossed aside; as something of a joke.
Eternal Recurrence is fundamental philosophy; how can we change if we continually recure eternally. There's alot of similarities between Blake and Nietzsche. an insanity. All of the symbols of Zarathustra are no accident. Highly recommended. simply made up.
Until one creates the Overman- that is beyond good and evil, or rather, over certain inferior laws that rule us.
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