Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Nietzsche

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81 Episodes

  1. Zarathustra's Prologue

    Published: 1/2/2025

  2. Part 1: I. The Three Metamorphoses

    Published: 1/1/2025

  3. Part 1: II. The Academic Chairs of Virtue

    Published: 12/31/2024

  4. Part 1: III. Backworldsmen

    Published: 12/30/2024

  5. Part 1: IV. The Despisers of the Body

    Published: 12/29/2024

  6. Part 1: V. Joys and Passions

    Published: 12/28/2024

  7. Part 1: VI. The Pale Criminal

    Published: 12/27/2024

  8. Part 1: VII. Reading and Writing

    Published: 12/26/2024

  9. Part 1: VIII. The Tree on the Hill

    Published: 12/25/2024

  10. Part 1: IX. The Preachers of Death

    Published: 12/24/2024

  11. Part 1: X. War and Warriors

    Published: 12/23/2024

  12. Part 1: XI. The New Idol

    Published: 12/22/2024

  13. Part 1: XII. The Flies in the Market-place

    Published: 12/21/2024

  14. Part 1: XIII. Chastity

    Published: 12/20/2024

  15. Part 1: XIV. The Friend

    Published: 12/19/2024

  16. Part 1: XV. The Thousand and One Goals

    Published: 12/18/2024

  17. Part 1: XVI. Neighbour-Love

    Published: 12/17/2024

  18. Part 1: XVII. The Way of the Creating One

    Published: 12/16/2024

  19. Part 1: XVIII. Old and Young Women

    Published: 12/15/2024

  20. Part 1: XIX. The Bite of the Adder

    Published: 12/14/2024

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying a fondness for aphorism. Nietzsche’s influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism. Thus Spake Zarathustra is a work composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the “eternal recurrence of the same”, the parable on the “death of God”, and the “prophecy” of the Overman, which were first introduced in The Gay Science. Described by Nietzsche himself as “the deepest ever written”, the book is a dense and esoteric treatise on philosophy and morality, featuring as protagonist a fictionalized Zarathustra. A central irony of the text is that the style of the Bible is used by Nietzsche to present ideas of his which fundamentally oppose Judaeo-Christian morality and tradition.