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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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Beyond Good and Evil (Hardcover)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Translated by Helen Zimmern; Edited by Robert Silverrider
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El anticristo (Paperback)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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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?.
Here is Friedrich Nietzsche's great masterpiece The Anti-Christ,
wherein Nietzsche attacks Christianity as a blight on humanity.
This classic is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand
Nietzsche and his place within the history of philosophy. "We
should not deck out and embellish Christianity: it has waged a war
to the death against this higher type of man, it has put all the
deepest instincts of this type under its ban, it has developed its
concept of evil, of the Evil One himself, out of these
instincts-the strong man as the typical reprobate, the 'outcast
among men.' Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the
low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the
self-preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even
the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most
vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as
sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation. The most lamentable
example: the corruption of Pascal, who believed that his intellect
had been destroyed by original sin, whereas it was actually
destroyed by Christianity " -Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil" is Nietzsche at his best. In the book the
philosopher attempts to systematically sum up his philosophy
through a collection of 296 aphorisms grouped into nine different
chapters based on their common theme. For the reader who has yet to
discover Nietzsche in this translation by Helen Zimmern will be
found a fabulous introduction. For those who have already
discovered Nietzsche here you will find the opportunity to
understand the whole of Nietzsche's philosophy.
A 19th-century literary masterpiece, tremendously influential in the arts and in philosophy, uses the Persian religious leader Zarathustra to voice the author's views, including the introduction of the controversial doctrine of the Ubermensch, or "superman," a term later perverted by Nazi propagandists. A passionate, quasi-biblical style is employed to inspire readers to become more than they have been and to transcend the limitations of conventional morality. A provocative work that remains a fixture of college reading lists.
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