Thus Spoke Zarathustra

submitted by SoylentCapitalist from self.debatealtright

After coming back to this book years later many better interpretations comes to me. You want the power to will your entire being, and create new values for your people. For those interested in Nietzsche's philosophy or want to debate a different interpretation.

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[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 2 insightful - 6 fun2 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

Didn't Nietzsche invent the Superman comics?

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I love that book but it's far from the best one. My favorites are Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morality, and Twilight of the Idols. Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a bit too abstract and poetic for my taste.

[–]SoylentCapitalist[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is the first and only book of his I read and I continue to find his intended interpretation because it resonates with me intuitively. There is even a study supporting Nietzsche's degree of self-awareness that you might be interested in.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3005626/

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

The book says "Fliege in dein Einsamkeit". The Übermensch doesn't seek community.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

That's because the masses are last men.

[–]LarrySwinger2 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Okay, but I don't see the book expressing any kind of impulse to start or join a community. A certain subtlety would get lost, one would start conforming again out of necessity. The whole book wrestles with the heaviness of living in a society while staying divorced from it.

[–]Nombre27 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Haven't read it but that being the goal really speaks to the necessity of a community.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc6IT5L3ZSk&ab_channel=BillLyons

Bowling alone is akin to a tree falling in the forest with no one around.