By M. Langer
This publication offers a step by way of step illumination of the intricacy, "logic," and significance of 1 of Nietzsche's richest and most complicated works. In a transparent and obtainable demeanour the writer explains the interconnectedness of The homosexual Sciences likely unrelated sections. all through she presents severe remark, history info, and translation corrections.
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8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Goethe’s libretto and Nietzsche’s Prelude, compares themes emphasized in the troubadours’ era and in some of Nietzsche’s poems, and suggests the Prelude’s poems resemble nursery rhymes. “Sieben Sachen” can also mean miscellaneous items, or odds and ends. It does not mean light amusements, as Higgins erroneously suggests (Comic Relief, p. 27). See Tom Chetwynd, A Dictionary of Symbols (London: Paladin Grafton Books, 1982), pp. D. Douglas and Merrill Tenney, NIV Compact Dictionary of the Bible (Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1989/New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1993), pp.
Prelude in German Rhymes 27 “Höhere Menschen”, the poem clearly refers only to men: “Der . . ihn . .. jener . ”. 18. The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects, pp. 123–4, 407–8; and A Dictionary of Symbols, pp. 307–8. 19. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (hereafter Thus Spoke Zarathustra), in The Portable Nietzsche, trans. and ed. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Viking Press, 1982), pp. 174–7. This page intentionally left blank Book One This page intentionally left blank Book One: Sections 1–10 These ten sections develop the difference between conventional morality and Nietzsche’s star/creator morality.
We have long believed humans’ highest and lowest aspects are respectively reason and instinct. We have claimed lack of reason and the sway of instinct makes animals inferior to humans. By comparing animals to “higher” (rather than “lower”) humans and attributing reason to both, Nietzsche overturns the traditional conceptions concerning humans, animals, reason, and instinct. Had he differentiated only on the basis of extraordinary versus commonplace (rather than “higher”/“lower” or “noble”/“common”), he might have incurred fewer charges of being anti-democratic.