What do you feel about Thus Spake Zarathustra?

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I would not say any specific things here, for the book perhaps has the widest range of interpretation...

I am so curious! We can quote anything and discuss...

I am not a feminist nor I am shallow, but one thing has suddenly passed through my mind-Lou von Salomé

Plus the famous photo

P.S. Lest any misunderstanding: I am not particularly interested about Nietzsche's romance, it just interests me as much as any other things about him.


Let's discuss the book!! !!

I am so curious!! !! !

The musical interpretation of Zarathrusta was proposed to be used in the movie 2001 where it would be played during the launch of a rocket powered by thousands of atomic explosions.

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ruveyn

......I've only nibbled on the beginning of 'Zarathustra', but there's a bunch of stuff in The Antichrist that could be interesting here. At first I thought I'd summarize a few, but he's so broadly out of step with norms that you have to debate those too before you can decide whether you agree with him. Some of it's ASD related, especially how his arguments against the usefulness of abstract morality would apply to etiquette. He would argue that a lot of customs aren't healthy in either the collective or individual senses, and I'm sometimes hard-put to disagree.

It's one of my first ever philosophy books but I think I only ever read the start at a time when due to my less than Nietzchean philosophical comprehension and apallingly simplistic education it went over my head. I have more recently sampled Beyond Good and Evil and several secondary sources of material. You'll need to get me going if you want to discuss any of this as I don't tend to have much of the philosophical material that I've consumed ready at hand for reproduction in new conversation. I am interested to hear what you have to say about it so maybe you can start us off with something in particular that you want to say.

"also sprach zarathustra" was far easier for me to understand. "thus spake" was just great words spinning 'round in my head, leaving no trace but making me very tired afterwards.

Music composer Richard Strauss was inspired by this book.

A quote from the book "I am not man I am dynamite."

Funny that you mention that; I decided to read Nietzsche after reading a Mencken book that also had praise for Strauss. I'm a Dvořák fan myself...

I might be up for chatting about 'Antichrist' on here, but I've been spending too much time banging keys and staring at LCDs, and it's nice outside

Probably the least controversial thing that I remember immediately, and something that plays into some of his other points, is that the abstract self is disingenuous. He seems to be saying that the bigger your world is, and the more you acknowledge and engage it, the less you're distinct from it.