The Will to Power
Friedrich Nietzsche
The famous collection of notes from his last active years, edited after his death by his sister. All four books in one volume: nihilism, the critique of past values, the principle of a new valuation and discipline and breeding.
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Homer and Classical PhilologyHis inaugural lecture at Basel in 1869, given at just 24. Nietzsche asks what classical philology is for and argues that the study of Homer must serve life, not dry scholarship.
Verified PDF · Secure download - The Birth of Tragedy
His first book and still one of his most influential. Nietzsche reads Greek tragedy as a clash between the Apollonian love of order and the wild Dionysian spirit, and asks what art can do for a life full of suffering.
Verified PDF · Secure download - The Future of Our Educational Institutions
Five lectures from 1872 on what schools and universities should really do. Nietzsche warns against education that turns out useful employees instead of free, cultivated minds, a debate that still feels current.
Verified PDF · Secure download - Early Greek Philosophy and Other Essays
Early essays on the Greeks, including Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, Homer's Contest and The Greek State. You see Nietzsche discover Heraclitus and the pre-Socratics who shaped his whole philosophy.
Verified PDF · Secure download - On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
His famous short essay on how language and concepts turn living experience into frozen metaphors. A quick, sharp read that many see as the seed of his later attack on truth and morality.
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