По ту сторону добра и зла. Прелюдия к философии будущего
by Friedrich Nietzsche, Фридрих Ницше
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Read in August, 2008
290. Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
If Nietzsche had started here – rather than nearly ending with this thought – he might have been more comprehensible. His readers might have said – ‘oh, right, so that is how it is going to be, is it? We’re dealing with some smart-arse that is going to play games with us – well, play away…’
But, he doesn’t start here – he starts here:
“SUPPOSING that Truth is a woman--what the...more
If Nietzsche had started here – rather than nearly ending with this thought – he might have been more comprehensible. His readers might have said – ‘oh, right, so that is how it is going to be, is it? We’re dealing with some smart-arse that is going to play games with us – well, play away…’
But, he doesn’t start here – he starts here:
“SUPPOSING that Truth is a woman--what the...more
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Read in September, 2007
recommends it for:
The Disaffected/The Affected
Reading Nietzsche is fucking fascinating even if you can only grasp 85% of what he's getting at. He's pithy as all get out which makes him difficult to understand at points. He writes assuming the reader already has a certain background in history/philosophy/the history of philosophy and, frankly, it makes perfect sense that he's loathe to dumb it down because he despises the hoi polloi as it is.
Anyway, what Nietzshe's on about is sort of demystifying humans as humans have been/are now perce...more
Anyway, what Nietzshe's on about is sort of demystifying humans as humans have been/are now perce...more
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The master of all the books!
Freud described Nietzsche as the only man who knew his mind. Although both were quite mad there is no doubt about the veracity of the statement and this book just proves it. Written by an old, less passionate Nietzsche it dissects the human understanding and life with incredible precision. Mostly assorted in metaphysical aphorisms, it’s a summary of his pitiless quasi-objective observations. The question simply is.. Are you up to it..?
Daring in attack and asse...more
Freud described Nietzsche as the only man who knew his mind. Although both were quite mad there is no doubt about the veracity of the statement and this book just proves it. Written by an old, less passionate Nietzsche it dissects the human understanding and life with incredible precision. Mostly assorted in metaphysical aphorisms, it’s a summary of his pitiless quasi-objective observations. The question simply is.. Are you up to it..?
Daring in attack and asse...more
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Read in July, 2007
I keep this book close at hand and re-read a few chapters here and there several times each year. Nietzsche's title suggests a work of moral philosophy, which this is. But rather than deriving a view of moral behavior from metaphysics, Beyond Good and Evil asserts the primacy of moral categories in our thought. By explaining how a myopic moralism underpins our Platonic tradition, Nietzsche submits his philosophical forebears to a withering critique. His writing is at times playful and at other ...more
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How can I put this.....this man's words are inspired. When I first encountered Nietzsche, I was astonished at how much I agreed with his thoughts. No, even more, how he had put down in writing thoughts and ideas that I had formed over the years of my life. And, then, of course there was a lot that was new to me as well. Much of his writing seemed inspired, almost like words from the Devil. Many times now, I'm not even sure where some of my thoughts and ideas have come from, whether they formed o...more
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For those of you who are unfamiliar with him, Friedrich Nietzsche was an angry little man who protected himself from the Mean Old World by swaddling himself in an exaggerated ego (and an even more exaggerated moustache).
Rather than suggest that you read any or all of his works, I've taken the liberty of creating a "Nietzsche Book Generator" that you can use to construct your very own philosophical tomes, in the comfort of your own home!
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1) Make...more
Rather than suggest that you read any or all of his works, I've taken the liberty of creating a "Nietzsche Book Generator" that you can use to construct your very own philosophical tomes, in the comfort of your own home!
Just follow these simple steps:
1) Make...more
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This is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy of ethics and the best introduction to Nietzsche. BGaE is an important work as it critically examines the ethical and philosophic systems that preceeded it. Nietzsche's writing is throught provoking and often difficult. Many will not find it convincing as many of his ideas are put forward without support or in a manner of building agreement with the reader. I find Nietzsche's ethics troubling as they seem to come from a position of su...more
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One scholar (I can't remember who) noted Nietzsche's overwhelming excess of style and that he has. This makes him fun to read - to a point. Other times, forgive my heresy, Nietzsche seems to be the bad teenage poet of philosophy - so far over the top, so dramatic, that you lose whatever point he had. And he does have some points worth considering, especially his challenges to traditional notions of morality, as much more down to Earth scholars such as Philippa Foot have noted. Foot is...more
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Read in September, 2007
so... God is dead,
any questions?
no, he never existed, he's another chain or anchor that man put on himself to limit potential, and yet another means of putting a limit on personal freedom. Now that the Judeo-Christian moral code, and other moral codes like it have been laid to rest, we can finally make something of ourselves.
Nietzsche makes the claim that he is here to clear the way for the coming Ubermensch much in the same way that John the Baptist claimed to clear the way for Christ....more
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no, he never existed, he's another chain or anchor that man put on himself to limit potential, and yet another means of putting a limit on personal freedom. Now that the Judeo-Christian moral code, and other moral codes like it have been laid to rest, we can finally make something of ourselves.
Nietzsche makes the claim that he is here to clear the way for the coming Ubermensch much in the same way that John the Baptist claimed to clear the way for Christ....more
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Read in July, 2008
recommends it for:
everyone, except perhaps very happy Christians
Wow. I can't even imagine what it must have been to be in his head.
Very, very unique perspective on life. Makes you question a lot of "unquestionable" beliefs.
I like his perspective on truth, i.e. there is no such thing. There is only perspectives and views. Truths look different from different view points, so it's better to see things from many different view points than hold fast to 'truths'. Holding fast to 'Truths' is what can get you in the pilot seat of an airplane be...more
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I'm generally pretty good at dismissing all the sexist stuff you find in older books, because you know, such was the style of the time to think of women as less than equal. Fine. I get that, but this book actually has a section about the inferiority of women with adages like, "Black dress, white pearls, and a silent mouth is the best outfit for a woman." Ok, in a lot of cases that's true, but you don't have to write about it! Dang. Plus he says women haven't even mastered cooking. Some...more
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Read in May, 2008
Nietzsche is grouchy and batty, but also smart and funny. Nietzsche understands that life wants to grow more than anything else. Life wants to grow more than it wants to live. Its weird and its true and our complex minds are driven by that same urge.
Nietzsche builds a maze out of his thoughts and it helps you learn to think like an acrobat. But watch out, Nietzsche is kind of a dick and spends alot of the book complaining about how stupid Everyone Else is. He also admires dictators and think...more
Nietzsche builds a maze out of his thoughts and it helps you learn to think like an acrobat. But watch out, Nietzsche is kind of a dick and spends alot of the book complaining about how stupid Everyone Else is. He also admires dictators and think...more
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Read in January, 2005
Nietzsche is German, and considered an existentialist- two of my favorite characteristics of a writer- so I thought that he would be interesting by default. But I was wrong. This book is overly verbose and quite hard to get through; most of his sentences are a paragraph long and by the time you've gotten to the point you've forgotten what he was talking about. I gave up several chapters in because I had no idea what he was talking about and what the general feel of the book was... all I knew was...more
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Read in January, 2004
Nietzsche has been popularized and assimilated into pop culture for his bad-assness, but at the loss of appreciation for his incredibly poetic prose, his devastating critique of modernity, and--oddly enough--the importance of his writing. He's not a pop philosopher, he's a gigantic menace to philosophy as a project, and the point of departure for literally hundreds of influential thinkers who followed him. Reading him made me think everyone I had read before him was stupid, not because he told...more
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Nietzsche can be puzzling, mainly due to his aphoristic style, but also amazingly lucid. As with all his writings, this is a book of short segments of reflection on various topics, not all of which the reader will agree with, but then at times it's not at all clear whether Nietzsche is being literal, rhetorical, metaphorical, cynical or (typically) some combination of all of those. Definitely worth one's time. Some of the author's interests have become dated due to their removal from us in ti...more
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To be honest, I'm not sure why I own this. The copy I have is really old and worn, so I probably picked it up at a thrift store somewhere because I felt like I should read Nietzsche (or because I'd been watching too much A Fish Called Wanda). It's definitely not what I anticipated - I think I was expecting really dense writing, and lo and behold, a huge part of it is just numbered statements. I'd like to think I'll pick it up someday, but in the meantime it just makes me look well-rounded...more
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Read in February, 1999
This book picks up where Zarathustra left off, namely building an ethical system free of absolutes like "good" and "evil." His philosophy is fully developed in this book and it's a bit more clear than Zarathustra, albeit less fun to read. The section where he calls out philosophers and tells them they're all sheep trying to justify their own assumptions rather than explore truth was particularly interesting to read, especially as Nietzsche reveals his own foibles quite well i...more
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a philosopher or someone who wants to be prodded
I have been reading the man for years... I now know as the lsd told me years ago nietszche is peachy...in fact i have the t-shirt which a buddy made for me...the book was weighty to me...and that can be a very good thing especially when the author is trying to challenge conventional thought throughout history...though i didn't understand the half of what I have read...I know that some nourishing meat has sunk into my unconscious mind to make a pearl in the oysters darkness...mike seely and the a...more
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Read in September, 1981
Corrections to the listing: 1) published I think in 1886, not 2003. 2) Actually, get the translation by Walter Kaufmann if you can.
This to me is the best single Nietzsche if you're going to read just one. I don't like the bombast and mythologizing of Zarathustra, the final books are a little nutty, and the earlier books don't have his complete logic fleshed out (though The Birth of Tragedy is daz
This to me is the best single Nietzsche if you're going to read just one. I don't like the bombast and mythologizing of Zarathustra, the final books are a little nutty, and the earlier books don't have his complete logic fleshed out (though The Birth of Tragedy is daz
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Ever wonder if people just give 5 stars to some books because the author's name and prestige obligates them to do so?
Anyway, if you can get over the whole equating women with livestock thing, this is a dense (yet light in the world of philosophy texts) collection of the depressing thoughts of a man whose name nobody seems to be able to pronounce correctly. I typically read it while listening to really bad punk rock, to prep myself for the daily pleasures of college life.
Anyway, if you can get over the whole equating women with livestock thing, this is a dense (yet light in the world of philosophy texts) collection of the depressing thoughts of a man whose name nobody seems to be able to pronounce correctly. I typically read it while listening to really bad punk rock, to prep myself for the daily pleasures of college life.
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