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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 is not really a novel, it is not really poetry, nor is it a traditional philosophical treatise. "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" is a philosophical parable that follows the wanderings of a character called Zarathustra, a Nietzschean prophet.
The piece 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 vs. 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.
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GenrePhilosophy, Biography and Memoir, Spirituality and Religion
Length10 hrs 44 mins
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Publish dateJan 7, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PART 1 - Prologue
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12PART 2 - Book 1
13Chapter 1 - The Three Metamorphoses
14Chapter 2 - The Academic Chairs of Virtue
15Chapter 3 - The Afterworldly
16Chapter 4 - The Despisers of the Body
17Chapter 5 - Joys and Passions
18Chapter 6 - The Pale Criminal
19Chapter 7 - Reading and Writing
20Chapter 8 - The Tree on the Hill
21Chapter 9 - The Preachers of Death
22Chapter 10 - War and Warriors
23Chapter 11 - The New Idol
24Chapter 12 - The Flies in the Market-Place
25Chapter 13 - Chastity
26Chapter 14 - The Friend
27Chapter 15 - The Thousand and One Goals
28Chapter 16 - Love of the Neighbor
29Chapter 17 - The Way of the Creator
30Chapter 18 - Old and Young Women
31Chapter 19 - The Bite of the Adder
32Chapter 20 - Child and Marriage
33Chapter 21 - Free Death
34Chapter 22 The Giving Virtue
35Chapter 23
36Chapter 24
37PART 3 - Book 2
38Chapter 1 - The Child with the Mirror
39Chapter 2 - In the Happy Isles
40Chapter 3 - The Compassionate
41Chapter 4 - The Priests
42Chapter 5 - The Virtuous
43Chapter 6 - The Rabble
44Chapter 7 - The Tarantulas
45Chapter 8 - The Famous Wise Men
46Chapter 9 - The Night Song
47Chapter 10 - The Dance Song
48Chapter 11 - The Grave Song
49Chapter 12 - Self-Overcoming
50Chapter 13 - The Sublime Ones
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