Fragments From A Shattered Mind: Working Notes And Journal Extracts
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5As a devout Christian,
I had very high expectations from this book.
I was surprised to learn that Nietzsche was not anti-semitic, that was something I learnt from this book.
He likes Buddhism better than Christianity. "Buddhism, I repeat is a hundred times colder, more truthful, more objective."
He goes on to attack the origin of Jewish concept of God, concept of sin, psychology of Christians, gospels.
He says,"Christian is the hatred of the intellect, of pride, of courage, of freedom and senses."
Indeed, I felt really funny reading this and I am in a better mood. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Tal van knappe inzichten die intussen gemeengoed zijn geworden. Toch blijft hij met zijn religiekritiek steken in secundaire kwesties.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Tal van knappe inzichten die intussen gemeengoed zijn geworden. Toch blijft hij met zijn religiekritiek steken in secundaire kwesties.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An intense and damning work - one not to be caught reading in public where I live.
A fearsome, angry, snarl against Christianity, as it was at the time. Rails and rambles against the decadence and nihilism of Christianity, of weakness, of parasitism, of the promise of eternal life, the corruption of the Church and priesthood, and of the evils justified by religion. It is a means for which the weak can resent and dominate or refuse the strong, or the ways of the world, as he says.
As for Jesus? A misguided redeemer, who promised "The kingdom of god is within you", and perhaps the only true Christian.
This is not exactly a book one can read, and put aside, and say, "That was interesting. On to the next one." It stays with you - as madness or as a spark of genius.
As a side note, my copy was translated by H. L. Mencken, also famous for his acidic style and critique of American religion. A funny historical coincidence.
Recommended for Hyperboreans. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It is possible to see this as too aristocratic. After all, 'Or can any teach God knowledge? Seeing as he judges those which are high.' But for all that, here is hot fury and cold steel, and it cuts deep...And, of course, it would be easy to draw facile comparisons between him and the 'New Atheists'--Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris--and it's been done; but that's just comparing children with a grown-up. Each one of them is--Smart Like A Moron! Though I suppose they're sure clever, since stupid people say so. After all, it's not like the Pharisees and the dictionary freaks (of monkish habit) are going to find the answer. They're as lost as Hitler!And, if anyone's wondering, Was Nietzsche German? I doubt it. Indeed, it was his cross to be so surrounded by the plague of Victorian Germanic-Teutonic introverted losers which had so infected and deformed the Europe of his day. Far more real of an infection than whatever dream of "Eastern Jews" that the Nazis used to fret of...like wrestlers with the sensibilities of snobs: "Eastern Jews! (Uneducated)!" Yet those old German military-academic scientists were really 'life unworthy of life', as the Nazis used to say. God! useless weak people, always trying to bully everyone. Like one of those two-and-a-half pound dogs that always wants to fight...Although I like the ones that are too grand to fight even better. They go through life with their eyes safely shut, and they if they provoke you, they'll never admit it, because their eyes are too weak to see you or your concerns, their eyes are too weak to even see their feet, although at least they have their conceit, even if they are too fat to reach their feet. And too grand, of course, to even want to. But whatever fools say, there is never anything wrong with wanting to be a little noble, no matter how low-born you are. So let them say of thee, that he, 'adventured his life far'. Or else is she, 'wild for to hold, though I seem tame'. But what do they know of life, who live as the dead? So rest in your conceit, Christians, for your sin rests on you. For, after all, they have no sense of correctness, only of conceit, and the privilege of little lords who are too lazy to do any work: so what is more weak than that? And jealousy of anything capable of real kindness and generosity: did they think that this too would go unnoticed? But, come, let us not disturb the moral invalids--the ethically feeble, more vexed by slights to their cloistered names and parochial words, than to the sorrows of the people and catastrophes of the others--let them rest in their sins, for their sins rest in them. (9/10)
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I found Friedrich Nietzsche when I was still in high school, and have been a huge fan ever since. Sadly, he is one of the most misunderstood and maligned thinkers, but stands as a huge influence on so much of modern thought. Nietzsche is not only a philosopher who is easy to read, but he is a joy to read. He is ecstatically involved in his thought and passes that ecstasy on the reader. I have always drawn strength from his work, and return to it often.
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Fragments From A Shattered Mind - Friedrich Nietzsche
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FRAGMENTS FROM A SHATTERED MIND
BY FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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Spring 1888
Nihilism
Nothing would be more useful and deserving promotion than resolute nihilism of action.
: As I understand all phenomena of Christianity, of pessimism, they express, we are ready not to be; it is reasonable for us not to be.
in this case this language of reason
would also be the language of selective nature.
Yet what is to be condemned more than anything else, is the ambiguous and cowardly half-heartedness of a religion like Christianity: to be more explicit, the Church: which, instead of encouraging death and self-destruction, protects all sick and ill-begotten and makes it propagate (itself) –
Problem: which would be the ways of a strict form of the great contagious nihilism: one that teaches and practises voluntary death with scientific meticulousness… (and not the weak vegetating in expectation of a false post-existence–) You cannot condemn Christianity enough because it has devaluated such a purifying great movement of nihilism, which has perhaps been in progress, with the idea of an immortal subject: likewise with the hope for resurrection: in short it has always prevented us from the deed of nihilism, suicide… It substituted slow suicide; little by little a small and poor but lasting life; little by little an ordinary and mediocre bourgeois life etc.
Counter-Movement Art
The Birth of Tragedy
III
These two natural phenomena of art: are juxtaposed by Nietzsche as the Dionysic and the Apollinic: he claims that – the word dionysic
expresses: an urge for unity, a reaching out beyond subject, everyday life, society, reality, as an abyss of oblivion, the passionate and painful swelling into darker, fuller and more suspended states; an ecstatic word of consent to the comprehensive nature of life as the unchanged, equally powerful and equally blissful in all transformation; the great pantheistic compassion and commiseration even sanctioning and holding sacred the most atrocious and problematic qualities of life, out of the eternal will to procreation , to fertility, to eternity: as a unifying feeling of the necessity of creation and annihilation… The word apollinic
expresses: the yearning for being by oneself, for the typical individual
, for all that simplifies, emphasises, makes strong, lucid, unambiguous and typical: the freedom under the law.
The progression of art is as necessarily linked to them, as the evolution of mankind is linked to the antagonism of the sexes. The profusion of power and restraint, the highest form of self-affirmation in a breezy, distinguished and reserved beauty: the Apollinism of the Hellenic will –
The origin of tragedy and comedy as immediately seeing a divine type in the state of comprehensive ecstasy, as the experience of history, the visit, the miracle, the act of foundation, the drama
–
This conflict of the Dionysic and the Apollinic within the Hellenic soul is one of the great mysteries N[ietzsche] has been attracted by considering the Hellenic nature.
Basically, Nietzsche only tried to guess, why exactly the Greek Apollinism had to grow out of a dionysic underground: the dionysic Greek had to become apollinic, which means: to break his will to the colossal, multiple, uncertain and atrocious with a will to restraint, simplicity, subordination to terms and rules. The measureless, the wild, the Oriental lies at