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3.27 AVERAGE
3.27 AVERAGE
i’ve not read too much of nietzsche before so some of the excerpts in this book didn’t make too much sense, but i guess it’s motivation to read one of his full works. really enjoyed his thoughts on the morality of evil and whether it is ever really immoral
medium-paced
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
I never had the urge to put so many comments to what I read as for this book.
The format of aphorisms is interesting and I guess you could take almost each one out and discuss or reflect on them.
However I have to make a remark on this weird version which is just an extraction from "human, all too human" from Nietzsche:
Bad: They are weirdly ordered and this book would do very well with a preface to explain that
Good: I hope I can lend it out to friends super easily to discuss on some of the aphorisms and it's small
The end contains some weird love and marriage stuff where woman is only seen in context to men. That was sad
The format of aphorisms is interesting and I guess you could take almost each one out and discuss or reflect on them.
However I have to make a remark on this weird version which is just an extraction from "human, all too human" from Nietzsche:
Bad: They are weirdly ordered and this book would do very well with a preface to explain that
Good: I hope I can lend it out to friends super easily to discuss on some of the aphorisms and it's small
The end contains some weird love and marriage stuff where woman is only seen in context to men. That was sad
This philosopher is right morals do change with time because this was so sexist. Which is sad because I actually really liked his thoughts on pity, hatred, and “good”/“evil”. So this is quite unfortunate, but this was definitely a product of its time. But a pro of me reading this is I want to start getting more into philosophy.
reflective
medium-paced
Some ideas are interesting, others, eye-roll inducing. On the whole, this book is a series of claims that are not entirely coherent with each other.
reflective
medium-paced
i decided to try Nietzsche but unfortunately this wasn’t for me, i will try reading something else of his in the future, but for now i am pretty neutral of his work
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
challenging
slow-paced