Name: Thus Spake Zarathustra
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Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Friedrich Nietzsche
ISBN: 9781490955230

Type

Physical Book

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Translated by

Thomas Common

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

460

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

24.6 x 18.9 x 2.4 cm

Weight

0.82 kg.

ISBN13

9781490955230

Synopsis "Thus Spake Zarathustra"

The book chronicles the fictitious travels and pedagogy of Zarathustra. The name of this character is taken from the ancient prophet usually known in English as Zoroaster (Avestan: the Persian founder of Zoroastrianism. Nietzsche is clearly portraying a "new" or "different" Zarathustra, one who turns traditional morality on its head. He goes on to characterize "what the name of Zarathustra means in my mouth, the mouth of the first immoralist:

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844-Weimar, August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher, poet, musician, and philologist, whose work has had a profound influence on contemporary global thought and Western culture.
Nietzsche wrote on topics as diverse as art, philology, music, history, religion, science, and tragedy. He critiqued culture, religion, and Western philosophy through the genealogy of the concepts that integrate them, based on the analysis of moral attitudes (positive and negative) towards life.
It is particularly notable the influence exerted on Nietzsche by the also German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, whom he considered his teacher, although he did not follow Schopenhauer's ideas dogmatically, and in many aspects, he diverged from his thought, even making a radical critique of his philosophical ideas.

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