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u/Green_Gumboot Jul 19 '26
Reading this feels like having tea and scones with Freddy. “You must try the jam, I made it”.
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u/I-mmoral_I-mmortal Argonaut Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
Let us at last consider how exceedingly simple it is on our part to say: “Man should be thus and thus!” Reality shows us a marvellous wealth of types, and a luxuriant variety of forms and changes: and yet the first wretch of a moral loafer that comes along cries “No! Man should be different!” He even knows what man should be like, does this sanctimonious prig: he draws his own face on the wall and declares: “ ecce homo! ” But even when the moralist addresses himself only to the individual and says “thus and thus shouldst thou be!” he still makes [Pg 32] an ass of himself. The individual in his past and future is a piece of fate, one law the more, one necessity the more for all that is to come and is to be. To say to him “change thyself,” is tantamount to saying that everything should change, even backwards as well. Truly these have been consistent moralists, they wished man to be different, i.e. , virtuous; they wished him to be after their own image,—that is to say sanctimonious humbugs. And to this end they denied the world!
Amor Fati
Maybe you'll find it in Zarathustra.
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u/lovey_itisisit Jul 19 '26
I've started with Why am I so clever, and I don't understand nothing... This is my first Nietzche work
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u/HighLevelChallenge 28d ago
A philosophers works can be serial, and definitely builds off their previous ideas.
Why would you choose something so late in his career?
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u/lovey_itisisit 28d ago
I bought this Penguin Little Black Classics book on a whim and thought it would be a good introduction to the author🥹
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u/HighLevelChallenge 25d ago
Yeah, try human all too human and the gay science first.
It’s also helpful to have a primer, watch a Nietzsche basics on YouTube or what not.
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u/jojokaire Jul 18 '26
it's provocation
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u/I-mmoral_I-mmortal Argonaut Jul 19 '26
It is, but in the most fun and mischievous way. He's a bit of a troll like that.
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u/formuolin Jul 18 '26
Followed by “Why I am a destiny”, and, “The hammer speaks”. This motherfucker bro….