Human All Too Human
by Friedrich Nietzsche · first published 2015
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Aphoristic, nuanced and incisive, it serves as an accessible entry point to Nietzsche and rewards rereading, especially for those who want to grasp his train of thought before Beyond Good and Evil.
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…constantly but I've read some/most of their books over and over again. Wilde's Intentions, Putnam's Realism with a Human Face, Dewey's Art as Experience, for example, and almost everything of Nietzsche's, e.g. Human, All Too Human or Daybreak, I find endlessly rereadable. Chesterton, Nietzsche and Wilde are very funny too.
on “Ask HN: Books worth reading multiple times?” ↗Almost every book by Nietzsche. For example: Thus Spoke Zarathustra The Gay Science Human All Too Human
on “What's the most radical book you've read?” ↗> Human All Too Human : A Book for Free Spirits to give its full name For some reason i don't often see this book mentioned. Perhaps i am biased (this was my introduction to Nietzsche) but i have always found this to be more…
on “What's the most radical book you've read?” ↗…interested in reading him, start with Twilight of the Idols and Beyond Good and Evil. If you like those two then you can delve into some of his other work such as the Antichrist, On the Geneaology of Morals, Human, All Too Human, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra
on “The Invigorating Strangeness of Friedrich Nietzsche” ↗…great YouTube channels out there that teach to the intelligent adult. Gregory B Sadler, Mark Thorsby, Daniel Bonevac, Carneades.org are the ones I remember being useful. Some good series' are out there: Human, All Too Human; Alan Watts' TV series; The Reith Lectures... I've missed a ton, of course, this is just stuff I remember enjoying or gaining something from. I hope this list isn't too overwhelming. I'd start with the…
on “What, exactly, do philosophers do?” ↗I would probably recommend reading Human All Too Human, The Gay Science and Thus Spoke Zarathustra before Beyond Good and Evil. You kind of need to get into his train of thought to appreciate what he's getting at.
on “Beyond Good and Evil (1886) [pdf]” ↗…phenomenological sense--that must occur if we really want to give a text an honest chance to affect us--Nietzsche had a few illuminating aphorisms on this point, I think most of them appear in The Gay Science and Human, All Too Human for those interested. It's a lack of a sort of meta-theoretical awareness required for resolving incommensurate theories and gauging and weighing them against each other. It's easy enough to select…
on “Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000)” ↗…so that out of him little by little an abundance of different individuals would develop. The brevity of human life misleads us to many an erroneous assertion about the qualities of man." - Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
on “What if we could live for a million years?” ↗…tired of everything being a sales pitch. Someday I may want to look up the stage Nietzsche's syphilis advanced to without that following me around as part of my advertising profile. 'People who enjoyed "Human all too Human" also bought Doxycycline 200 mg tablets' - that sort of stuff creeps me out.
on “Why I Left Google” ↗…comments, and have to agree - I wake up before my alarm and the clock is reading 6:42 or something when the alarm is for 6:45. It's not some exotic Lamport clock phenomena or some quote out of Nietzsche's "Human, All too Human" ("Everyone knows from experience how fast the dreamer can incorporate into his dream a loud sound he hears, bell ringing, for example, or cannon fire, how he can explain it after the fact from his dream,…
on “Why did I wake up before my alarm clock went off? (2015)” ↗…interested in reading him, start with Twilight of the Idols and Beyond Good and Evil. If you like those two then you can delve into some of his other work such as the Antichrist, On the Geneaology of Morals, Human, All Too Human, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra What edition should I read? So I stayed true to the early thinkers that interpreted him (to not be fooled by thinkers like Steven Pinker who trash him). Off topic: for a…
on “The Invigorating Strangeness of Friedrich Nietzsche” ↗Yes (ok) he talks about the concept of master/slave morality in Beyond Good and Evil but he talks about a lot of other stuff in that book. He also talks about it in Human, All Too Human and probably other places. I don't remember off the top of my head. But where he explores it at length is in On the Genealogy of Morals. The title's a bit of a giveaway. I've read Beyond Good and Evil…
on “How To Deconstruct Almost Anything (1993)” ↗FriedrichN? Is that an allusion to Nietzsche? It would certainly be fitting the sharpness of your observation. Wouldn’t be surprised to find the thought you expressed here in “Human, All Too Human”.
on “What “work” looks like” ↗