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Which is the first work from Nietzsche I should pick up if I wish to acquaint myself with his core ideas?

>> No.14367483
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>>14367327
If you are not a brainlet just read Zarathustra first,
than Human, all too human afterwards, which is just aphorisms.
Finish with Ecce Homo and Antichrist.

BGE and Genealogy is for retards who don't get Zarathustra.

>> No.14367499

Beyond Good and Evil, easily.

>> No.14367541

>>14367483
why is he doing the napoleon pose?

>> No.14367549

>>14367541
maybe because he was an admirer of napoleon? i thought it was the freemason pose

>> No.14367559

>>14367483
what a ugly freak Nietzsche was

>> No.14367570

>>14367483
Look at this manlet, no wonder he was a psycho

>> No.14367596

The message from Zarathustra is all he ever cared about and so should you.

>> No.14367624

>>14367327
It's obvious that these idiots here don't read.
>to acquaint myself with his core ideas
Nietzsche wrote Twilight of the Idols exactly for this.

>> No.14367820

>>14367327
Gay Science, than Zarathustra, than Beyond Good and Evil

>> No.14367957

>>14367624
This

>>14367820
>>14367483
>than
Please get off this board

>> No.14367967

>>14367957
t. monolingual anglo
kys faggot

>> No.14367985

>>14367967
Neither anglo nor monolingual, I have just read enough to be familiar with spelling of the most basic English words

>> No.14367995

>>14367985
>tries to pretend he's way smarter thEn everyone on here
>can't even form a proper sentence
unironically fuck off

>> No.14368010

>>14367327
I tried with Ecce Homo and ended up preety good

>> No.14368013

>>14367985
Ironically I would bet the poster who made that mistake is both anglo and monolingual. The absolute state of this board.

>> No.14368025

>>14367995
>assumes my gender
>unironically
fuck off

>> No.14368052

>>14367957
>>14367985
>>14367995
>ESLs bickering with each other about what's proper english
english is dead, if i could go back in time i would cripple the british empire so i wouldn't have to witness its butchering by hordes of unwashed foreigners

>> No.14368059

>>14368025
>>assumes my gender
What the fuck?

>> No.14368144

>>14367327
I started with Zarathustra but i think the genealogy of morals would be a better starter

>> No.14368222

Start with the greeks
Read Haraclitus, Nietzsche took a lot of concepts from him, especially the Ewige Wiederkehr

>> No.14369061

>>14367559
>>14367570
Him being an ugly weakling manlet is a testament to his genius, not a mark against it, since his philosophy forsakes nothing for his own benefit.

>> No.14369190

>>14367327
I would suggest “On the Genealogy of Morals”. Unlike most of his other works it is not a collection of aphorisms, nor an epic like “Zarathustra”, but consists instead of 3 essays in which he systematically expounds his moral philosophy. It also belongs to the “last” period of his writings, so the thoughts expressed therein are definitely representative of the mature themes for which he is remembered.

>> No.14369214

What did Zarathustra mean? Can someone explain for a brainlet

>> No.14369224

>>14369214
No.

>> No.14369251

Either Beyond Good and Evil or Genealogy of Morals if you just want to understand what he was about for the sake of cultural literacy.

Zarathustra if your intent is to actually get into Nietzsche.

>> No.14369267

>>14367559
Cope

>> No.14369285

Leo Strauss' Beyond Good and Evil lectures. You will need help the first time thru.

>> No.14369291

Also read Rudiger Safranski's Nietzsche

>> No.14369294

Twilight of the Idols was written in just over a week, between 26 August and 3 September 1888, while Nietzsche was on holiday in Sils Maria.[1] As Nietzsche's fame and popularity were spreading both inside and outside Germany, he felt that he needed a text that would serve as a short introduction to his work.[citation needed] Originally titled A Psychologist's Idleness, it was renamed Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophize with a Hammer.

>> No.14370637

>>14367570
>>14367559
I think he was cute

>> No.14371098
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>>14367327
Just read proto-Nietzsche.