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>It's funny how fundamentally divorced from the logic of the ancient world modern humans are, reading the classics is such a waste of time for 99% of people who have no hope of actually understanding them outside their modern contexts.
Start with the Greeks is a meme.

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>>19028436
It's funny how fundamentally divorced from the logic of the ancient world modern humans are, reading the classics is such a waste of time for 99% of people who have no hope of actually understanding them outside their modern contexts.

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>>11266939
No-one who repeats this meme has ever actually read Kaufmann. The man 100% understood Nietzsche, you can trust him.

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>>10480762
Kaufmann is good but there's no doubt he sanitized Nietzsche a bit for American audiences to make him more palatable to the post-WW2 sensibility.

Of course to his credit he did actually understand Nietzsche, and that is a rarity in itself.

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