/lit/ - Literature

Fagner

He wrote like a woman.

What is the best translation/edition of Nietzche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra?

I usually prefer Kauffman when reading N. but dont think he made a translation of this one? Looking for the best translation.

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The Übermensch

What if Nazi soldiers reading Nietzsche and others felt encouraged to commit horrific crimes?

It will one day be said that Heine and I have been by far the first artists of the German language." — Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

Was wondering what /lit/ thought about this book. I think it is a pretty fascinating book. I also think it is authored by one of the best philosophers.

HOWEVER, I find it contradicting itself quite frequently, which I typically do not find in Nietzsche's books.

The one example that comes to mind and I can remember right now is in the first chapter.

Nietzsche writes off the metaphysical or religious view of the world; using logical arguments saying how we cannot further know what the world is like by trying to metaphysically extract an essence out of the object seen. But then in the next few pages saying how science is also flawed because numbers are a human invention, so basing a science, such as physics, on mathematical propositions, is flawed, as they do not tell us about how the world actually works.

I see that as a contradiction as he casts out attempting to find the "true world" by looking at the "essences" of objects while at the same time saying we cannot know how the world truly is because our science is based on numbers, which are human-made constructs, which only show the surface, not the essence.

[will to power is just a virgin vs chad meme]

>The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Did he have zero self awareness or did he consider himself one of the worst readers?

Title. I am looking for a quote by Nietzsche on Englishmen. I believe it may have been in a letter rather than an essay, but can't be sure. In the quote, he basically says that "Englishmen" (which I took to be equivalent to analytic philosophers) ultimately arrive at his own conclusion - that of the moral vacuum - but fail to sufficiently abandon modern values thereafter. They go along with the idea that God is dead, but base their morality off of what "feels good" - he says that this is foundationally dishonest, because they are functionally aesthetes, insofar as their sense of The Good is based on nothing but an impulse of the will.

Nearly all famous writers and philosophers seem like falsely erudite and egotistical fools to me

Does anyone have a flowchart on how to get into Nietzsche?

Is there a recording of every place Nietzsche lived?

Interested to see his travels

>>11663048
>do you get special powers if you?
unironically yes

"The reabsorption of semen by the blood ... perhaps prompts the stimulus of power, the unrest of all forces towards the overcoming of resistances ... The feeling of power has so far mounted highest in abstinent priests and hermits"

why do christcucks like to pretend he doesn't exist?

What is this guy's name again?

Positing a noumena world that is superior to the phenominal one is Dumb and Gay

Why would the man who railed against the untermensch wail for a horse?

What would a state based on his ideas look like, /lit/?

I know Moral perfectionism would be key. We would be focused on cultivating the greatest types of humans. The difficulty is finding the right way to do this.

I think it’s pretty clear that our materialist society doesn’t do this. So what type of society would? What great projects could our nation create so that great people will rise up to meet them.

What would a modern aristocracy look like, if not simply based on capital accumulation, which is an aristocracy which rarely produces great men.

I could use more concrete ideas to help develop my political philosophy.

He was the historical rival of Christ wasn't he?

what would you say is his magnum opus?
imo it is the gay science

*ends philosophy*

ITT: we create Nietzsche aphorisms. I'll go first.
>Nostalgia is just disguised regret, and when that demon creeps into a man's mind, the man says "I miss dearly the days of my youth" when what he really means is that he never lived to begin with.

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>>11275390
fools, the both of you, we will only meet our destiny beyond good and evil