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Anonymous asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 2 weeks ago

Am i the Nietzsche last man?

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  • j153e
    Lv 7
    1 week ago

    When Friedrich suffered his childhood traumas of losing tragically first his beloved father, and shortly thereafter his beloved brother, he became dissatisfied with his "last man" all-female-family normalcy/comfort bias.  Instead, he accelerated as a very young professor (24 years young) in the understanding of the words of the ancients, the closest profession akin to studying the Word, his childhood focus before his Pastor-father out-pictured "the death of God" for young Friedrich.

    This reassertion of his strong masculine personal self accelerated as he encountered a series of father/mentors, including notably Schopenhauer and Wagner, moving into a ~ 2-decade period of increasing self-realization as an overcomer, running against the wind of the spirit of the age (churchianity, which Soren Kierkegaard also moved beyond as a "Knight of Abrahamic Faith").

    As Nietzsche became more like Zarathustra, after 10 years in the professorship health concerns led to his resignation, and then 10 more years of intensive contemplation wherein he wrote his more definitive philosophical works.  Thus Niezsche's last man s as Saint Paul's old chuchianity man, before the new man or truer self is manifest.

    As Nietzsche then, in 1889, 20 years after ascending to his professorship in 1869, suffered what he regarded as a transformation into the Christ and the Buddha, a cosmic cross to be sure, he thus ironically came, like the Son of God Saint John, into the brooding presence of his mother (and then his sister, following his mother's passing):  "With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time."  (T. S. Eliot "Little Gidding")  The Eternal Return unto the holy family matrix was completed, thus Spake Zarathustra.

    So, if you're in the herd, be of good cheer, even as Yahoo'ers may choose to not go gently into the good night, you may find joy in the morning, be an overcomer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_o... .  Parting is such sweet sorrow.

    Related:

    https://www.mothermeera.com/

    Understanding Yourself, by Mark Prophet;

    The Following of Christ, by Gerard Groote;

    Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry, by Diane Allen.

  • Anonymous
    1 week ago

    Obviously NOT, because if you were then you wouldn't have bothered to ask. Just goes to show how little you know about it. FAIL. 

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    Very, very probably not. You're an anon Yahoo Answers guy - the very acme of the "underman". Hope this helped.

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