The Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ: Or How to Philosophize with a Hammer
By Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
2021-05-28 07:49:19
The Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ: Or How to Philosophize with a Hammer
By Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
2021-05-28 07:49:19
''One must be superior to mankind in force, in loftiness of soul—in contempt’In these two devastating works, Nietzsche offers a sustained and often vitriolic attack on the morality and the beliefs of his time, in particular those of Hegel...
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Nietzsche criticizes German culture of the day as unsophisticated, decadent and nihilistic, and shoots some disapproving arrows at key French, British, and Italian cultural figures who represent similar tendencies. In contrast to all these alleged representatives of cultural "decadence", Nietzsche applauds Caesar, Napoleon, Goethe, Thucydides, and the Sophists as healthier and stronger types. The book states the transvaluation of all values as Nietzsche's final and most important project and gives a view of antiquity wherein the Romans for once take precedence over the ancient Greeks, albeit only in the field of literature.
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