Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

1033 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born in Röcken, Prussia, in 1844. He was named in honor of the Prussian king, Friedrich Wil ...

1034 FRIEDRICHNIETZSCHE professor, but Leipzig immediately awarded him a doctorate without examination or thesis, and within a y ...

INTRODUCTION 1035 In order to face life honestly and clearly, the creative genius must begin by pro- claiming the death of God. ...

1036 FRIEDRICHNIETZSCHE A representative sampling of Neitzsche’s thought can be found in The Portable Nietzsche,edited by Walter ...

THEBIRTH OFTRAGEDY 1037 THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY (in part) I. Much will have been gained for esthetics once we have succeeded in app ...

1038 FRIEDRICHNIETZSCHE who is responsive to the stimuli of art behaves toward the reality of dream much the way the philosopher ...

THEBIRTH OFTRAGEDY 1039 souls have no idea how cadaverous and ghostly their “sanity” appears as the intense throng of Dionysiac ...

1040 FRIEDRICHNIETZSCHE bas-reliefs. The perfection of these dream scenes might almost tempt us to consider the dreaming Greek a ...

THEBIRTH OFTRAGEDY 1041 Dionysiac forces subdued them. Doric art has immortalized Apollo’s majestic rejection of all license. Bu ...

1042 FRIEDRICHNIETZSCHE III. In order to comprehend this we must take down the elaborate edifice of Apollonian culture stone by ...

THEGAYSCIENCE 1043 to die at all. Such laments as arise now arise over short-lived Achilles, over the generations ephemeral as l ...

1044 FRIEDRICHNIETZSCHE But hours will come when you will realize that it is infinite and that there is nothing more awesome tha ...

TWILIGHT OF THEIDOLS 1045 TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS (selections) THEPROBLEM OFSOCRATES [1] Concerning life, the wisest men of all ag ...

1046 FRIEDRICHNIETZSCHE [4] Socrates’ decadence is suggested not only by the admitted wantonness and anarchy of his instincts, b ...

TWILIGHT OF THEIDOLS 1047 extreme case; his awe-inspiring ugliness proclaimed him as such to all who could see; he fascinated, o ...

1048 FRIEDRICHNIETZSCHE “We have found him,” they cry ecstatically; “it is the senses! These senses, which are so immoral in oth ...

TWILIGHT OF THEIDOLS 1049 the prejudice of reason forces us to posit unity, identity, permanence, substance, cause, thinghood, b ...

1050 FRIEDRICHNIETZSCHE HOW THE“TRU EWORLD” FINALLYBECAME AFABLE THEHISTORY OF ANERROR The true world—attainable for the sage, ...

TWILIGHT OF THEIDOLS 1051 To be fair, it should be admitted, however, that on the ground out of which Christianity grew, the con ...

1052 FRIEDRICHNIETZSCHE winds are approaching. Or unrecognized gratitude for a good digestion (sometimes called “love of man”). ...