Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays (Version 2)
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Publication date 2021-03-31
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LibriVox recording of Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays by Friedrich Nietzsche. (Translated by Maximilian August Mugge.)
Read by John Van Stan
“The essays contained in this volume treat of various subjects. With the exception of perhaps one we must consider all these papers as fragments. 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. But they are also very valuable on account of the young philosopher's daring and able handling of difficult and abstruse subjects. "Truth and Falsity," and "The Greek Woman" are probably the two essays which will prove most attractive to the average reader.” - Summary by Maximilian Mügge, Translator.
section one of early greek philosophy and other essays by friedrich nietzsche translated by maximilian auguste muga this librivox recording is in the public domain the greek state preface to an unwritten book 1871 we moderns have an advantage over the greeks in two ideas which are given as it were as a compensation to a world behaving thoroughly slavishly and yet at the same time anxiously eschewing the word slave we talk of the quote dignity of man end quote and of the quote dignity of labor end quote everybody worries in order miserably to perpetuate a miserable existence this awful need compels him to consuming labor man or more exactly the human intellect seduced by the quote will end quote now occasionally marvels at labor as something dignified however in order that labour might have a claim on titles of honor it would be necessary above all that existence itself to which labor after all is only a painful means should have more dignity and value than it appears to have had up to the present to serious philosophies and religions what else may we find in the labor need of all the millions but the impulse to exist at any price the same all-powerful impulse by which stunted plants stretch their roots through earthless rocks out of this awful struggle for existence only individuals can emerge and they are at once occupied with the noble phantoms of artistic culture lest they should arrive at practical pessimism which nature abhors as her exact opposite in the modern world which compared with the greek usually produces only abnormalities and centaurs in which the individual like that fabulous creature in the beginning of the horation art of poetry is jumbled together out of pieces here in the modern world and one and the same man the greed of the struggle for existence and the need for art show themselves at the same time out of this unnatural amalgamation has originated the dilemma to excuse and to consecrate that first greed before this need for art therefore we believe in the quote dignity of man end quote and the quote dignity of labor end quote the greeks did not require such conceptual hallucinations for among them the idea that labor is a disgrace is expressed with startling frankness and another piece of wisdom more hidden and less articulate but everywhere alive added that the human thing also was an ignominious and piteous nothing and the quote dream of a shadow end quote labor is a disgrace because existence has no value in itself but even though this very existence in the alluring embellishment of artistic illusions shines forth and really seems to have a value in itself then that proposition is still valid that labor is a disgrace a disgrace indeed by the fact that it is impossible for man fighting for the continuance of bare existence to become an artist in modern times...
