Hey /lit/ What do you think that are the must read works of Nietzsche?
You should read the greeks at least
including some of their plays and myths
start with Gay Science that shit hooks you in
Thanks Guys !
you'd need to go through google groups to locate this. talk.bizarre, February 2006, the Thus Spake Zarathustra Bizarre Obligatory Blowout. last time i looked it had been purged.
da gre33ks
The Holy Bible by Jesus Christ
>>7659213
>Idiot
Not that guy, but reading the literary Greeks would be helpful with Nietzsche, also Aristotle. Heidegger agrees with me so you can't bully me.
>>7658452
You must read your own heart, for NEET-Chan is not for everyone.
http://www.anthonymludovici.com/mw_int.htm
Who is to be Master of the World?
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
Serious answer.
Presocratics
Old Testament
Plato's Phaedo and Republic
Aristotle's Ethics (if not complete works)
New Testament
Descartes' Meditations
Hume's Enquiry
I know that Schopenhauer was an influences on him but I know nothing of the mans work. Nietzsche was a philologist and so studied the Vedic writings, Buddhism and he was at least aware of Zoroastrianism although I don't know what texts he engaged with for that. Basically one should develop an understanding of the world before Christianity came on the scene, in the western tradition the only thing close to its devaluing of the real material world we live in was to be found in Plato. For instance one has to understand that even though Judaism has a transcendental god the religion itself is to a large extent quiet about an afterlife and all rewards are to be attained in this world making it thoroughly this-worldly.
One could say that Hegel strongly influences him too but discretely. I'm not sure how much this should be emphasised however since he almost never mentions the man.
I neglected to list Kant but should anyone seriously read Kant?
Laotze
Rousseau
Schopenhauer
Kierkegaard
Hegel
Lessing
Kant
John Stewart Mill
Lucretius
Leibniz
Heraclitus
Proclus
Plotinus
Pythagoras
Epictetus
Sartre the flies
Borne
Heine
Parmenides
Empedocles
Democritus
Thales
Horace
Montaigne
Voltaire
Hermann Hesse
Pushkin
>>7661038
>should anyone seriously read Kant?
this is bait right?
>>7658452
Deleuze
Biographies and letters.
He's one of maybe 20 people whose ENTIRE output is worth reading.
>>7659492
Kek'd
>>7661389
Who else would you consider to be in that group?
>>7661439
The Greeks are obvious so I won't name them. (They also have the benefit of not having their entire oeuvre preserved -- mostly just the best bits.)
I'd say Dante, Hume, Kafka, Shakespeare, Nabokov, Kierkegaard, Conrad, Quine.
>>7659213
this
>>7658452
you shouldn't miss out on the birth of tragedy
>>7661554
>They also have the benefit of not having their entire oeuvre preserved -- mostly just the best bits.
How the hell do you know that?! Maybe we've been left with their worst stuff.
>>7661050
Of course. 2boring4u
>>7658452
Beyond good and evil
Genealogy of morals
>>7658452
Zarathustra. I think the poetry of it encapsulates what makes Nietzsche different from other philosophers.
>>7661020
>though Judaism has a transcendental god the religion itself is to a large extent quiet about an afterlife
It didn't even have a real heaven/hell until other religions created the idea
there was just a dark, quiet place beneath the earth where all bodies went to rest
>>7662922
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE_5Y9IKCk0
>>7661554
>Nabokov
>>7661050
I thought reading Kant was a meme.
>>7663108
It's the hottest meme since 1781.
>>7661554
>Nabokov
>people making long-ass lists and not including Augustine or Aquinas and medieval philosophy in general
Fucking plebs.
Also, the prologue to Thus Spake Zarathustra is essential to understanding Nietzsche on the ubermensch and why he must come. By prologue I mean the scene when Zarathustra meets the holy hermit, and their parting.
