/lit/ - Literature

>>14978466
It is in the sense that it is written like a novel, so it's barrier to entry is lower than his other work which references many of the philosophers before him. It is a bad place to start because it is a dense metaphorical representation of many of his key thoughts put into parable. It is very easy to misinterpret what he is saying. Some may thing that it's bad to read it because you may get the wrong idea about it and his writing is so strong that you will forever think you are interpreting it correctly. But others may say that you should read the primary text and decide for yourself and reading anything is better than reading nothing. It's up to you on how easily you are swayed by the content you digest and how much a midwit you think you are.

>>14978482
That was a well put answer, pretty much exactly what I was looking for. I've decided that I will read it, but accept I will likely misunderstand at least some of it. Maybe I'll use some kind of online companion as I get through it.

>>14978466
It's not. Read Twilight of the Idols first.

Read The End of Faith by Sam Harris nd you don't really need to read any philosophy after that..

>>14978663
bad take, obvious shitpost, here is your (you)

>>14978674
wrong. just because you can't deal with the fact that the ubermensch of neuroscience solved all the problems of philosophy doesn't make it not true.

>>14978663
Oh god shut up

>>14978714
accept it, it's easier once you accept it

>>14978466
Thus Spoke Zarathustra should be the last thing you read of Nietzsche, to get accustomed with his writing style you should read in this order :

The Gay Science

Beyond Good and Evil

On the Genealogy of Morals

Twilight of the Idols

The Birth of Tragedy

Unfashionable Observations (What we usually call Untimely Meditations

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Ecce Homo

The rest

You can mix and match the order a bit if you want, but I recommend sticking to it.

>>14978466
read byge or genealogy of morality instead. tsz has lots of interesting observations but the style/concept is very cringe

>>14978466
I read the inferior translation (the "thus spake" one) as a complete philosophical illiterate at 16. Needless to say I gained nothing from it save a couple more obscure words in my active vocabulary.

>>14978466
What about "Dawn" or "Daybreak".
I feel like I'm gonna like it.

>>14980205
>that pic
Surely it's just a coincidence that /his/ has the most reddit and /leftypol/ migrants infesting it.

>>14980263
definitely. It is unironically worse than /pol/ often. Just due to regular migrants rather than a particular political leaning. It has the most retarded takes.