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The Antichrist (German: Der Antichrist) [i] is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1895. [ 1 ] Although the work was written in 1888, its content made Franz Overbeck and Heinrich Köselitz delay its publication, along with Ecce Homo .
Nietzsche would speak against anti-Semitism in other works including Thus Spoke Zarathustra and, most strongly, in The Antichrist: [21] "An anti-Semite is certainly not any more decent because he lies as a matter of principle". [22] In Zarathustra, Nietzsche set Wagner up as a straw man, lampooning his anti-Semitism in the process.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [ii] (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. [14]
75 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes. 1. "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." 2. "We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving ...
In Nietzsche's view, if one is to accept a non-sensory, unchanging world as superior and our sensory world as inferior, then one is adopting a hatred of nature and thus a hatred of the sensory world – the world of the living. Nietzsche postulates that only one who is weak, sickly or ignoble would subscribe to such a belief.
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist was first published by Princeton University Press in 1950. A second edition was published in 1956, a third edition in 1968, and a fourth edition, which was the first paperback printing, in 1974. [3] In 2013 an edition with a new foreword by the philosopher Alexander Nehamas was published. [4]
In The Antichrist Nietzsche argues that man should be considered no otherwise than as a machine. [15] Even if some generic chaos (randomness) is added to the picture, it does not affect this. A chance is innocent. [47] He points out the weakness of human as well as of God. Man wills the good, "God" wills the good, and yet evil happens. [48]
in: The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner, The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 9, trans. Adrian Del Caro and others. Stanford University Press, 2021. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-8047-2882-9; Paperback ISBN 978-1-5036-1254-9