Thoughts Out of Season, Part II

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Thoughts Out of Season, Part II is a work by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. The introduction says the two essays translated in this volume form the second and third parts of the Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen. The introduction says the essay on history was completed in January, and that on Schopenhauer in August, 1874.

The text says that a happy life is possible without remembrance, as the beast shows, but that life in any true sense is absolutely impossible without forgetfulness. The text speaks of a degree of "historical sense" that injures and finally destroys the living thing, be it a man or a people or a system of culture. The text calls something a parable for each one of us: he must organise the chaos in himself by "thinking himself back" to his true needs. The writer says that these concessions of philosophy to the state go rather far at present, and that the state chooses its own philosophical servants.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher whose critiques of religion and morality, and his ideas of the will to power and eternal recurrence, left a deep mark on twentieth-century thought. His late works, written in isolation, grew increasingly urgent before mental collapse ended his career.

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Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Reading time: About 4 hours
Pages: 92
Language: English
Genre: Essays
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