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To: IronJack

I have to agree. Yeah, I get it. It’s cerebral. So is “Also Sprach Zarathustra.” And they’re both boring as hell.

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going to have to disagree with you on the 2nd part.

Reading Nietzsche is a lot of things, boring is not one of them. JMO.


4 posted on 11/20/2015 11:17:56 AM PST by dmz
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To: dmz
Reading Nietzsche is a lot of things, boring is not one of them. JMO.

I think that he was referring to the famed musical score - the overture of R. Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" - not Nietzsche's book (but whose themes are mirrored in the movie).

"Drei Verwandlungen nenne ich euch des Geistes: wie der Geist zum Kameele wird, und zum Loewen das Kameel, und zum Kinde zuletzt der Loewe."

Das Bild des Kindes als Ausgangs- und schliesslich wieder Endpunkt der ewigen im grossen Bogen verlaufenden Entwicklung des Individuums. Diese Vorstellung fuehrt dann irgendwann zum fast schon utopisch zu nennenden Uebermenschen, der alle menschlichen Schwaechen, d. h. bei Nietzsche Krankheiten und Abhaengigkeiten, ueberwunden hat.

-Wikipedia

Regards,

8 posted on 11/20/2015 11:25:34 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: dmz

I can read the Russians (Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Nabokov) before the Germans (Hesse, Nietschze, Kant, Heidegger). Have you ever tried to hack your way through Habermas? I’d rather remove my own spleen!


20 posted on 11/20/2015 12:59:08 PM PST by IronJack
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