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Title: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Penguin Classics) by R.J. Hollingdale, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Walter Kauffmann ISBN: 0-14-044118-2 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1978 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.63 (76 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A thought-provoking and mind-expanding book
Comment: I had heard so many aphorisms and blurbs about Nietzsche and his philosophy, I felt that I had no choice but to learn more about this interesting philosopher. I purchased this book and Beyond Good and Evil, started the latter, but found it a tad too dry after a week. I had skimmed Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and found it far more flamboyant and stylistic (to my taste), so I devoted my time reading to it.
And what a great book it is! What a departure from what other philosophers speak! Nietzsche teaches us the overman, the next step of our evolution; and to achieve the goal of the overman, we must not sustain or merely improve current state, but conquer it. The material in this book is like nothing I have ever read before. Chapter IV is very satisfying, especially "On the Higher Man".
Some chapters may require you to reread them in order to understand the quintessence of Nietzsche's message, but this is hardly any sacrifice compared to what knowledge you have to gain.
"The most concerned ask today: 'How is man to be preserved?' But Zarathustra is the first and only one to ask: 'How is man to be overcome?'" - On the Higher Man, section 3
Rating: 5
Summary: one of the best books ever written
Comment: this is nietzsche's best. Kind of hard to understand unless you haven't read any of his other works. In here he's an optimist. Looking for new values, questioning and creating. Nietzsche is contracictory and a paradox. He's influental and original. I think it's funny that he helped create a world he would have despised. One ruled by " the political elite of peddling to the masses" and postmodernism.
You can't understand his side though,,,,he's not congruent. He thinks trade is borgouise but hates socialism. He loves war but doesn't like the state. So all we have is a ruling king...or something. Nietzsche was sort of a fatalist and believed in "blood" or genetics in modern terms. But at other times says that "not were you're from from but were you're going is what matters" or something along those lines.Plus the camel,lion, and child story seems like slave, warrior, thinking conscious being to me...or free will.
I also see a very confused ...emotional man. He was influenced by people he shoots down, and he influenced many others. It seemed German philosophers (except Kant) didn't believe in free will(this could be because of the lutheran influence.) But nietzsche sometimes isn't even consistent here. Hegel and the "geist" and Marx and communism thought they "knew" where
society was going....marx with socialist,utilitarian, and possibly subconscious christian beliefs was going to create utopia. Nietzsche is right here too... atheistic individuals not examining past values( upholding altruism) and creating heaven on earth or "equility" is hell on earth.
Nietzsche new this would happen... "the state.... where the slow suicide of all is called life" I don't think think neitzsche was nearly as 'evil" as anyone thinks....some say to take him at his word. I judge people by their actions,and he was a peaceful man. And he hated anti-semites. I think he was just looking for new values... realizing the current ones where a joke. Way ahead of his time
Rating: 3
Summary: Worth Reading
Comment: Nietzsche has been said to be one of the greatest influances on modern philosophy, especially the existentialist movement and Zarathustra shows the reader just why he was a large influance. Nietzsche's works are truly like no ohter writer's, however, his philosophy seemed to be ignorant and sexist at times to myself, but none the less I do feel that everyone should read some of Nietzsche's works (or any philosopher's works for that matter). I do enjoy Nietzsche's argument against modern Christianity and the herd mentaility of the masses, but I think those two things would have to be my favorite philosophical views of Nietzsche. I give this book and Nietzsche in general, three stars because, while he will be an influance and is a good read, his philosophy is not the greatest at many points and is often misunderstood by people.
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Title: Beyond Good & Evil : Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Walter Kaufmann, Friedrich Nietzsche ISBN: 0679724656 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 17 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Anti-Christ by H. L. Mencken, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ISBN: 1884365205 Publisher: Independent Publishers Group Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche ISBN: 0394704371 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 August, 1968 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche ISBN: 0486285154 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Peter Gay, Walter Kaufmann, Friedrich Nietzsche, Peter Gay ISBN: 0679783393 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 28 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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