Summary
Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus spoke Zarathustra
Probably in the history of the human spirit, there was no person like Friedrich Nietzsche, who, with almost demonic passion, testified that philosophy is not just a mere area of thought but, first and foremost, a way of life. It can be said of him that he did not have philosophy, but that philosophy had him. And not only philosophy but also art. His work is the unity of art and philosophy or, rather, poetry and philosophy, which is mostly confirmed by the book Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
And who is Nietzsche's Zarathustra? Zarathustra is a teacher of the superman and an advocate of the eternal repeated advent of equals, but above all a preacher of the will to power and thus the last chord of a magnificent symphony of poetic thought that has been left to us as a legacy as a symbol and as a burden: the power of the spirit as the spirit of power.
Zarathustra is Nietzsche's life's work and its author has nowhere else managed to reach such heights of linguistic mastery. It is not an exaggeration to say that this book reached the highest level of German linguistic expression in general and that Nietzsche was not mistaken when he said that before him "it was not known what could be done with the German language". Because, even the poetry of the greatest German poets pales in front of Zarathustra, and even today the greatest philosophers do not manage to think poetically like Nietzsche.
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