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The subtitle of "Twilight of the Idols" is, "How to Philosophize with a Hammer." He wrote in the Foreword, "To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what would be more necessary than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds in which high spirits play no part.Read more ›
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"Twilight of the Idols" and "The Anti-Christ" are two of the last books, both composed in 1888, that Nietzsche wrote before his final descent into syphilis-induced madness which occurred during the first week of 1889. They continue themes he had developed in his earlier work, and "The Anti-Christ" especially approaches Christianity with a particularly ferocious and critical eye.
As anyone who has thumbed through a volume of Nietzsche can tell you, his work isn't composed of clear, well-defined propositions to be ultimately accepted or rejected; instead, his arguments have a kind of ravishing rhetorical force to them. His writing is less apothegmatic here than in other work, but is still never syllogistic or ratiocinated in such a way that we usually associate with philosophy. This isn't a mistake; he intended his work to speak as much if not more through the force of style than anything else. In his "attack" on Socrates in the first book, he calls reason itself a "tyrant," and wonders if Socrates enjoys his "own form of ferocity in the knife-thrust of the syllogism."
The greatest part of "Twilight of the Idols" is the chapter called "Morality as Anti-Nature" in which he says that all moral systems up until now, and particularly Christianity, are wrong precisely because they try to deform and reshape human nature to their own image. For Nietzsche, the moral is the natural, but Christianity - and this is really an attack on all religious systems, though some more than others - stops being moral when it tries to impose concepts that are completely foreign to human beings like the idea that "everyone is created the same" or a selfless Christian charity.Read more ›
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To read Nietzsch now is to know he is coming to his place in the sun at last. He was over 100 years ahead of his time, always a terrible thing for a genius.
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adding in his imortal tomes "Beyond Good and Evil" and "The Gay Science" (better tanslated as "Joyful Wisdom") make his count four in the top ten of western philosophy in my humble opinon ... best known for his oft-misinterpreted statement, "God is Dead", most will always leave out the second half of the statement wherein Nietzsche adds, " ...and who has killed him? It is you and I ... " ... people like to use the simple three word phrase and to drag his name thru the mud as a hateful atheist who unjustly attacked the Christian-Judeo religion ... with only the three word statement this attitude could be seen as accurate ... but when adding the rest of Nietzsche's thought on this three word damnation, he attaches the blaim to himself and every other person, even those who worship the "triune god" had a hand in killing this god ...
in these other two masterpieces from Nietzsche, we get a complete picture of his views that in the earliest translations were changed by his sister who served as his "eyes" by writing for the blind philosopher as well as the twisting of his philophical writing by the Nazis before and during the Second World War, espeically his discussion of the "superman"... so his "bad name" was made for him and sustained until more accurate translations could be obtained long after his death ...
but no one philospher can outdo Nietzsche when it comes to the truest view of mankind not to mention the accuracy of his description of the species that is mankind ...Read more ›
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