Early Greek Philosophy And Other Essays

Author : F. W. Nietzsche
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781983445248
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book Early Greek Philosophy and Other Essays Collected Works, Volume Two written by F. W. Nietzsche and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not even the labour of the artist did they admire, although they praised his completed work. If the Greeks perished through their slavery, one thing is still more certain: we shall perish through the lack of slavery. To the essence of Culture slavery is innate. An excerpt from the TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. The essays contained in this volume treat of various subjects. There also exists a mysterious connection between the State in general and the creating of the genius. In The Greek Woman, Nietzsche, the man who said, "One cannot think highly enough of women," delineates his ideal of woman. Penelope, Antigone, Electra are his ideal types. Plato's dictum that in the perfect State the family would cease to exist, belongs to the most intimate things uttered about the relation between women and the State. With the exception of perhaps one we must consider all these papers as fragments. It is part of it. A vast multitude must labour and "slave" in order that a few may lead an existence devoted to beauty and art. Strife and war are necessary for the welfare of the State. They saw the necessity of it, and the necessity of slavery, but felt ashamed of both. "Truth and Falsity," and "The Greek Woman" are probably the two essays which will prove most attractive to the average reader. In the essay on The Greek State the two tenets mentioned above are clearly discernible, though the Superman still goes by the Schopenhauerian label "genius." Our philosopher attacks the modern ideas of the " dignity of man" and of the " dignity of labour," because Existence seems to be without worth and dignity. The Greek woman as mother had to vegetate in obscurity, to lead a kind of Cranfordian existence for the greater welfare of the body politic. War consecrates and purifies the State. But they are also very valuable on account of the young philosopher's daring and able handling of difficult and abstruse subjects. Written during the early Seventies, and intended mostly as prefaces, they are extremely interesting, since traces of Nietzsche's later tenets--like Slave and Master morality, the Superman--can be found everywhere. Pythia was the mouthpiece, the symbol of Greek unity. Only in Greek antiquity did woman occupy her proper position, and for this reason she was more honoured than she has ever been since. The preponderance of such illusory ideas is due to the political power nowadays vested in the "slaves." The Greeks saw no dignity in labour. The purpose of the military State is the creating of the military genius, the ruthless conqueror, the War-lord.