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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche
nietzsche doesn't have the strongest poetic voice, but the passion and intensity with which he writes is undeniable. with regard to his philosophy (inasmuch as he would consider himself a philosopher at all), i find his stances on the primacy of physical being and immanence as one of the most unique epistemological systems ever deviced, and much ink has already been spilled on the cryptic nature of the eternal recurrence. i myself am rather opposed to seeing it merely through a normative/quasi-kantian basis for morality - my personal (and admittedly very scuffed) interpretation is that:
1) at the zenith of the will to power lies the interconnectedness of all things, and the sublimation of the world under the superman's will can enable us to experience every infinitesimal instance in time under the notion of eternity
2) when one has attained the superman it is impossible to acquiesce with any virtue that doesn't originate from the self - all moments past and present must be viewed through one and the same lens, and we must create this congruence between moments for ourselves without ceding to common pity or democracy of influence
at any rate, i think the open-endedness of nietzsche actually benefits the nature of his thought - the path to the superman can only be discovered singularly.
1) at the zenith of the will to power lies the interconnectedness of all things, and the sublimation of the world under the superman's will can enable us to experience every infinitesimal instance in time under the notion of eternity
2) when one has attained the superman it is impossible to acquiesce with any virtue that doesn't originate from the self - all moments past and present must be viewed through one and the same lens, and we must create this congruence between moments for ourselves without ceding to common pity or democracy of influence
at any rate, i think the open-endedness of nietzsche actually benefits the nature of his thought - the path to the superman can only be discovered singularly.