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978-1-107-00774-1 - Introductions to Nietzsche Edited by Robert B. Pippin Frontmatter More information INTRODUCTIONS TO NIETZSCHE Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) is one of the most important philosophers of the last two hundred years, whose writings, both published and unpublished, have had a formative influence on vir-
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- Thus Spoke Zarathustra as a work of literature?
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Zarathustra focuses his attention on what he often calls the problem of self-overcoming: how each of us, as individuals, might come to be dissat-isfied with our way of living and so be able to strive for something better, even if the traditional supports for and guidance toward such a goal seem no longer credible (e.g. the idea of the purpose of hu...
new way of thinking about or imagining ourselves that he believes is nec-essary for this sort of re-orientation. He suggests that such a possibility depends on how we come to understand and experience temporality at a very basic level, and he introduces a famous image, “the eternal return of the same” (which he elsewhere calls Zarathustra’s central...
On the face of it at least some answers seem accessible from the plot of the work. Zarathustra leaves his cave to revisit the human world because he wants both to prophesy and help hasten the advent of something like a new “attempt” on the part of mankind, a post “beyond” or “over the human” ( Ubermensch) ̈ aspiration. Such a goal would be free of...
In more traditional philosophical terms, Nietzsche often stresses that we start going wrong when we become captured by the picture of reveal-ing “reality,” the “truth,” beneath appearances, in mere opinions. This can be particularly misleading, Nietzsche often states, when we think of ourselves in post-Kantian modernity as having exposed the suppos...
However, as in many dramatic and literary presentations of philosophy (such as Platonic dialogues, Proust’s novel, Beckett’s plays, and so forth) there are not only things said, but things done, and said and done by characters located somewhere and at a time, usually within a narrative time that is constantly changing contexts, conditions of approp...
“On Old and New Tablets,” Zarathustra remarks, This is what my great love of the farthest demands: do not spare your neighbor! Human being is something that must be overcome. There are manifold ways and means of overcoming: you see to it! But only a jester thinks: “human being can also be leaped over.” (p. ) 159 This is only one of many manifestati...
The other plot events in the book also continue to suggest a great unsettledness in Zarathustra’s conception and execution of his project, rather than a confident manifesto by Nietzsche through the persona of Zarathustra. He had shifted from market place preaching to conversa-tions with disciples in Part , and at the end of that Part he decides to
forgo even that and to go back to his cave alone, and warns his disciples to “guard” themselves against him, and even “to be ashamed of him” (p. ). At the beginning of Part he begins to descend again, and again
we hear that he is overfull and weary with his gifts and with love (the image of love has changed into something more dramatic: “And may my torrent of love plunge into impasses!”), but now we hear something new, something absent from his first descent: he is also concerned and impa-tient. “My enemies have become powerful and have distorted the imag...
then many of Zarathustra’s themes had been similar to, or extensions of, what he had already said. Again he seeks to understand the possibility of a form of self-dissatisfaction and even self-contempt that is not based on some sense of absence or incompleteness, a natural gap or imperfection that needs to be filled or completed, and so a new goal t...
But he seems also to be gaining some clarity about his earlier aspirations and about the nature of the theme that plays the most important role in TSZ, “self-overcoming.” In a passage with that name, he comments on the doctrine most associated with Nietzsche, “the will to power.” But again everything is expressed figuratively. He says that all prio...
But while Zarathustra does not treat these issues as discursive problems, as if they were problems about skepticism or justification, he does suffer from them, suffer from the burden that the thought of such contingency imposes on any possibly worthy life. He becomes ill, apparently ill with xxix the human condition as such, even disgusted by it, a...
possible recovery from such an illness, his “convalescing.” There is in effect a kind of mini-narrative from the speech called “The Soothsayer” in Part until the speech “On Unwilling Bliss” in Part that is at the ii iii center of the work’s drama, and the re-orientation effected there is played out throughout the rest of Part , especially in “The C...
Dramatically, at the end of Part Zarathustra again resolves to return
home, and in Part he is underway back there, and finally reaches his
cave and his animals. “The Soothsayer” begins with remarks about the famous doctrine mostly attributed to Nietzsche, but here expressed by a soothsayer and quoted by Zarathustra. (In Ecce Homo, the idea is called the “basic idea” and “fundamental thought” of the work.)27 This notion, that “Everything is empty, everything is the same, everything was...
Master-morality values power, nobility, and independence: it stands “beyond good and evil.”. Slave-morality values sympathy, kindness, and humility and is regarded by Nietzsche as “herd-morality.”. The history of society, Nietzsche believes, is the conflict be-tween these two outlooks: the herd attempts to impose its values univer-sally ...
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This comprehensive and lucid exposition of the development of Nietzsche’s philosophy of history explores how Nietzsche thought about history and historiography throughout his life and how it affected his most fundamental ideas.
Nietzsche challenges us to embrace the inherent conflicts and contradictions of life, offering a powerful vision of philosophy that continues to resonate with readers to this day. In the text that follows, we will talk about the top three key ideas from this book. 1. Nietzsche examines the shift from the optimistic classical Greek worldview to ...
Mar 17, 2017 · Friends PDF Preview. Author and Citation Info. Back to Top. Friedrich Nietzsche. First published Fri Mar 17, 2017; substantive revision Thu May 19, 2022. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic who published intensively in the 1870s and 1880s.
Our interest here is not simply biographical, nor is it simply philosophical; rather, we are concerned with the existential psychological relations between the two, or more accurately, the personal philosophy of Nietzsche as an expression of his life-world.
