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This is a classic work by the German philologist, poet, composer,
author and philosopher, Nietzsche (1844-1900). He critiqued
religion, morality, contemporary culture and philosophy, basing his
thoughts on whether the idea is life-affirming or life-denying. He
was plagued by ill health, a workaholic and phenomenal thinker, and
hence his life was both short and very productive, ending in mental
collapse. At the age of 24 he remains the youngest ever Chair of
Classical Philosophy at the University of Basel. But he rarely
gained the respect he deserved within his lifetime. That has since
been amended and in the 20th century he was recognised as one of
the most significant figures in modern philosophy, most notably in
the areas of nihilism, postmodernism and existentialism.
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We Philologists (Paperback)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Translated by J. M. Kennedy
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1911 Edition.
My thoughts concerning the genealogy of our moral prejudices-for
they constitute the issue in this polemic- have their first, bald,
and provisional expression in that collection of aphorisms entitled
Human, all-too-Human, a Book for Free Minds, the writing of which
was begun in Sorrento, during a winter which allowed me to gaze
over the broad and dangerous territory through which my mind had up
to that time wandered.
This book is intended for calm readers, -for men who have not yet
been drawn into the mad headlong rush of our hurry-skurrying age,
and who do not experience any idolatrous delight in throwing
themselves beneath its chariot-wheels. It is for men, therefore,
who are not accustomed to estimate the value of everything
according to the amount of time it either saves or wastes. In
short, it is for the few. These, we believe, "still have time."
Without any qualms of conscience they may improve the most fruitful
and vigorous hours of their day in meditating on the future of our
education; they may even believe when the evening has come that
they have used their day in the most dignified and useful way,
namely, in the meditatio generis futuri. No one among them has yet
forgotten to think while reading a book; he still understands the
secret of reading between the lines, and is indeed so generous in
what he himself brings to his study, that he continues to reflect
upon what he has read, perhaps long after he has laid the book
aside. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German
philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist. He wrote
critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture,
philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony
and aphorism.
A record of the main principles of the most important religions of
the East measured with the Nietzchian standard of good and bad.
Contents: Primitive civilization; The Aryans; Later Brahmanism; The
rise of Buddhism; The Early Arabs; The Jews; Indian Philosophy; and
Minor Asiatic religions.
THIS 52 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Religions and
Philosophies of the East, by J. M. Kennedy. To purchase the entire
book, please order ISBN 0766191125.
THIS 94 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Religions and
Philosophies of the East, by J. M. Kennedy. To purchase the entire
book, please order ISBN 0766191125.
THIS 94 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Religions and
Philosophies of the East, by J. M. Kennedy. To purchase the entire
book, please order ISBN 0766191125.
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