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Major work on ethics, by one of the most influential thinkers of the last two centuries, deals with master/slave morality and modern man's current moral practices; the evolution of man's feelings of guilt and bad conscience; and how ascetic ideals help maintain human life under certain conditions. This challenging, rewarding work is required reading in philosophy courses worldwide.
Among the most influential philosophers of modern times, Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844-1900) declared in this classic study that Greek
tragedy achieved greatness through a fusion of elements of
Apollonian restraint and control with Dionysian components of
passion and the irrational. In Nietzsche's eyes, however, Greek
tragedy had been destroyed by the rationalism and optimism of
thinkers like Socrates. Nevertheless, he found in these ancient
works the life-affirming concept that existence is still beautiful,
however grim and depressing it may sometimes be. These and many
other ideas are argued with passionate conviction in this
challenging book, called by British classicist F. M. Cornford "a
work of profound imaginative insight, which left the scholarship of
a generation toiling in the rear."
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Ecce Homo (Paperback)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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R335
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This edition of The Joyful Wisdom boasts an authoritative English
translation by Thomas Common, which brings Nietzsche's poetry and
philosophy to vivid comprehension. Initially published in 1882 and
also known by its alternate title The Gay Science, the arguments
within this book are primarily occupied with the philosophical
concept that God has died. It is in this publication that Nietzsche
first makes his famous statement that God is dead; a phrase which
was to become associated with the philosopher during and after his
lifetime. For his own part, Nietzsche identifies these writings as
being of an intensely personal nature, the poems within expressing
feelings at the core of his being. Definitively part of the
philosopher's middle period, this work encapsulates the praise of
science and intellectual prowess which characterized Nietzsche in
the early 1880s. A strong alignment with skepticism and a
commitment to innovation with the scientific method, are strongly
praised by the philosopher.
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El anticristo (Paperback)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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R298
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Este es el má s certero de los ataques de Friedrich Nietzsche
contra la moral judeocristiana. En este libro el filó sofo desdeñ
a la compasió n, la debilidad y las creencias que dieron
nacimiento a la sociedad occidental luego de la muerte de Cristo en
la cruz, al tiempo que plantea la necesidad de recuperar los
?valores de la aristocracia?, es decir, el poder, la fuerza, el
gusto por la bú squeda de la verdad má s allá de las
supersticiones. El anticristo es la gé nesis de una religió n, el
cristianismo, pero tambié n del mundo occidental tal cual lo
conocemos. En é l, Nietzsche desentrañ a los sentimientos que
llevaron a los primeros cristianos a tergiversar el mensaje de
Jesú s, para convertirlo en una ?contradicció n de la vida?.
In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of
lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in
their consideration of morality. The work moves into the realm
"beyond good and evil" in the sense of leaving behind the
traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive
critique in favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach
that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and
the perilous condition of the modern individual.
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