Untimely Meditations
by Friedrich Nietzsche · first published 1873
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The four short works in Untimely Meditations were published by Nietzsche between 1873 and 1876. They deal with such broad topics as the relationship between popular and genuine culture, strategies for cultural reform, the task of philosophy, the nature of education, and the relationship between art, science and life. They also include Nietzsche's earliest statement of his own understanding of human selfhood as a process of endlessly 'becoming who one is'. As Daniel Breazeale shows in his introduction to this new edition of R.J. Hollingdale's translation of the essays, these four early texts ar
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…need to know the special magic incantation to store the original date of publication (the publishing date refers to the edition you're citing) but it just looks stupid (I think) to see Nietzsche F. 1999, Untimely Meditations (or whatever) and also I'd like to sort texts by original date of publication from oldest to newest because that's interesting. You have to put a special magic code in the extra field and then your tool-chain…
on “LLaMA: A foundational, 65B-parameter large language model” ↗…convention, to lie collectively in a style that is mandatory for everyone. Actually he had a lot to say about him—check out Schopenhauer as Educator, a long essay from Nietzsche's first (full-sized) book, Untimely Meditations aka Unfashionable Observations aka Thoughts Out Of Season—it's a very grateful tribute. William James wrote so many great essays, and one of the most accessible, and touching, is On a Certain Blindness…
on “How Philosophers Think” ↗…in barbaric nationalistic brotherhoods: "If the doctrines...of the lack of any cardinal distinction between man and animal, doctrines I consider true but deadly"--he says in an allusion to Darwinism in Untimely Meditations --"are hurled into the people for another generation...then nobody should be surprised when...brotherhoods with the aim of the robbery and exploitation of the non-brothers...will appear in the arena of…
on “Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope” ↗