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Beyond Good and Evil The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (Booklover's Library Classics)

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.” Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886. It draws on and expands the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but wi...

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

They noted that Nietzsche's book sold only a few hundred copies in his lifetime yet became one of the most influential works of philosophy in the past 150 years.

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So for example, Nietzsche's book, Beyond Good and Evil, I think it sold 200 copies in his lifetime. It was a cataclysmic failure, but it was maybe the most impactful book of philosophy in the last 150...

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They noted that Nietzsche's book sold only a few hundred copies in his lifetime yet became one of the most influential works of philosophy in the past 150 years.

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So for example, Nietzsche's book, Beyond Good and Evil, I think it sold 200 copies in his lifetime. It was a cataclysmic failure, but it was maybe the most impactful book of philosophy in the last 150 years.

Timcast IRL

It was mentioned in relation to the decline of religion and the rise of moral degradation, particularly in regard to drag performances for children.

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it's I'll put this right here is what each way you can go too far into the order side and you can go to cars look at the Islamic world right and so the lack of belief in God probably is what's leading...

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It was mentioned in relation to the decline of religion and the rise of moral degradation, particularly in regard to drag performances for children.

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it's I'll put this right here is what each way you can go too far into the order side and you can go to cars look at the Islamic world right and so the lack of belief in God probably is what's leading people to get this weird finding fine to find pleasure on our God that's the problem

The Daily Stoic

The book was cited for its use of epigrammatic style and evocative descriptions, such as the 'frog's eyes' metaphor. It was praised for its entertaining and understandable approach to complex ideas.

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There's a thing in one of his books I think it's beyond good and evil where he talks about how he describes humans as looking at the world through frog's eyes and it's like a frog and what he meant wa...

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The book was cited for its use of epigrammatic style and evocative descriptions, such as the 'frog's eyes' metaphor. It was praised for its entertaining and understandable approach to complex ideas.

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There's a thing in one of his books I think it's beyond good and evil where he talks about how he describes humans as looking at the world through frog's eyes and it's like a frog and what he meant was a frog that pops its head out of a lake and can only see the world from this very low vantage point so it doesn't understand anything that's happening in the big picture like that's so evocative that's so cool and like understandable and so I think a lot of the ancient Greeks had that same instinct which was we got to boil this down like this is like one sentence at a time and I think that really helps with the way they communicate.

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