Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Friedrich Nietzsche - Bitig Books Classics
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- ISBN-13
- 9798746312297
- Series
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Pages
- 356
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-04-29
- Author
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, written in the years 1883 to 1885, is a pretty unusual book in the history of Western philosophy. It isn't really a novel, it isn't really poetry, and it's not really a traditional philosophical treatise. Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical parable that follows the wanderings of a character called Zarathustra, a Nietzschean prophet.Thus Spoke Zarathustra is filled with irony and no more so than in the naming of its hero, Zarathustra. The historical Zarathustra is believed to be the founder of the ancient monotheistic tradition Zoroastrianism, which articulates a Manichean, good versus evil view of the world. Traditional Zoroastrianism sees good and evil as fundamental aspects of reality, beyond interpretation or human discourse. Nietzsche's perspective, and that of his protagonist Zarathustra, is the opposite of Zoroastrianism. This is meant as a kind of ironic joke.Nietzsche's underlying argument is that all human values are created by humans, rather than gods, or nature, or some underlying fundamental reality. Through his proxy, Zarathustra, Nietzsche argues that good and evil are names that we attribute to certain actions, behaviors, or ideas for strategic reasons. Nietzsche envisions humans at their best as creator beings, filling the world around them with values and significance. At their worst, humans are passive, cowardly, conformists attributing all of their historically and culturally specific values to the will of God or some essential nature. As Zarathustra travels, he encounters a few people who are willing to heed his call to empowerment and creativity, but he mainly meets small-minded fools intended to serve as counterexamples for Zarathustra himself.
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