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Thus Spoke Zarathustra By Friedrich Nietzsche


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Thus Spoke Zarathustra By Friedrich Nietzsche

Topic started by Minhaj on Dec 5, 2006 11:20:23 am



The introduction to this book is writen by a husband and wife who are both teachers at the University of Texas at Austen. It is a great introduction which summarizes the whole book. Buy this book just for that introduction which gives an excellent biography of the Nietzsche and the issues he was dealing with. I had heard about Nietzsche when I was scared of reading books. Then about a year ago I had picked up Nietzsche for Dummies hoping to understand what this guy was about. I liked some of the cartoons on the pages and facts about him, but I never really got excited.

I liked the idea of Superman and having lots of will power and doing powerful things. But I felt I already knew those things. What kept me away from reading Nietzsche was this ignorant assumption that he had nothing new to give me.


But now I feel lucky and excited to have this book and at night I read it with a happy heart. I think the contribution that intelligent people make for our world is that they begin where the obvious ends. In his book Nietzsche, deals with a feeling that I have been experiencing. After you stop believing in God, there is a sense of loss. And there is a feeling that now that God is gone, all purpose is gone with him. And there is this period of being simply stunned or being philosophically shell shocked. I sometimes feel, ’whats the point of it all?’ when no one is counting the Sawab, when there is no grand jury of prophets in the sky, when there are no angels sitting on my shoulder or paradise waiting after I die.

But Nietzsche starts from these very feelings. Where my imagination ended this book begins.


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Post by Gaylord_Focker on Dec 8, 2006 1:05:09 pm

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Post by Raw_Dust on Dec 6, 2006 11:47:48 am



’’As history teaches us, the consciousness of being in debt to the gods did not in any way come to an end after the downfall of communities organized on the basis of blood relationships. Just as humanity inherited the ideas of ’’good and bad’’ from the nobility of the tribe (together with its fundamental psychological tendency to set up orders of rank), so people also inherited, as well as the divinities of the tribe and extended family, the pressure of as yet unpaid debts and the desire to be relieved of them. (The transition is made with those numerous slave and indentured populations which adapted themselves to the divine cults of their masters, whether through compulsion or through obsequiousness and mimicry; from them this inheritance overflowed in all directions). The feeling of being indebted to the gods did not stop growing for several thousands of years—always, in fact, in direct proportion to the extent to which the idea of god and the feeling for god grew and were carried to the heights.

(The entire history of ethnic fighting, victory, reconciliation, mergers—everything which comes before the final rank ordering of all the elements of a people in that great racial synthesis—is mirrored in the tangled genealogies of its gods, in the sagas of their fights, victories, and reconciliations. The progress towards universal kingdoms is at the same time always also the progress toward universal divinities. In addition, despotism, with its overthrow of the independent nobles always builds the way to some variety of monotheism).’’


- excerpt from On Genealogy of Morals


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