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    We Philologists by Friedrich Nietzsche - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    We Philologists by Friedrich Nietzsche - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
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    We Philologists by Friedrich Nietzsche - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15. Oktober 1844 in Röcken -25. August 1900) war ein deutscher klassischer Sprachwissenschaftler und Philosoph. Am bekanntesten (und berüchtigtsten) sind seine Kritiken an Moral und Religion. Sein Werk wurde und wird häufig fehlinterpretiert und missbraucht. Er wird in regelmäßigen Abständen von Wissenschaft und Popkultur wiederentdeckt und als Enfant terrible einer oberflächlichen Zitatenkultur geschätzt: „Wenn du zum Weibe gehst, vergiss die Peitsche nicht!“

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      We Philologists by Friedrich Nietzsche - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

      The Complete Works of

      FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

      VOLUME 21 OF 24

      We Philologists

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2015

      Version 1

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      ‘We Philologists’

      Friedrich Nietzsche: Parts Edition (in 24 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

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      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

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      Friedrich Nietzsche: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 21 of the Delphi Classics edition of Friedrich Nietzsche in 24 Parts. It features the unabridged text of We Philologists from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Friedrich Nietzsche, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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      FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

      IN 24 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Philosophical Writings

      1, Homer and the Classical Philology

      2, On the Future of Our Educational Institutions

      3, The Greek State and Other Fragments

      4, The Relation Between a Schopenhauerian Philosophy and a German Culture

      5, Homer’s Contest

      6, The Birth of Tragedy

      7, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

      8, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

      9, Thoughts Out of Season

      10, Human, All Too Human

      11, The Dawn of Day

      12, The Joyful Wisdom

      13, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

      14, Beyond Good and Evil

      15, The Genealogy of Morals

      16, The Case of Wagner

      17, The Twilight of the Idols

      18, The Antichrist

      19, Nietzsche Contra Wagner

      20, The Will to Power

      21, We Philologists

      The Poetry

      22, Collected Poems

      The Autobiography

      23, Ecce Homo

      The Criticism

      24, The Criticism

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      We Philologists

      Translated by J. M. Kennedy

      CONTENTS

      TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION

      WE PHILOLOGISTS

      PLANS AND THOUGHTS RELATING TO A WORK ON PHILOLOGY (1875)

      THE FINAL DRAFT OF THE FIRST CHAPTER.

      THE DEATH OF THE OLD CULTURE.

      TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION

      The subject of education was one to which Nietzsche, especially during his residence in Basel, paid considerable attention, and his insight into it was very much deeper than that of, say, Herbert Spencer or even Johann Friedrich Herbart, the latter of whom has in late years exercised considerable influence in scholastic circles. Nietzsche clearly saw that the philologists (using the word chiefly in reference to the teachers of the classics in German colleges and universities) were absolutely unfitted for their high task, since they were one and all incapable of entering into the spirit of antiquity. Although at the first reading, therefore, this book may seem to be rather fragmentary, there are two main lines of thought running through it: an incisive criticism of German professors, and a number of constructive ideas as to what classical culture really should be.

      These scattered aphorisms, indeed, are significant as showing how far Nietzsche had travelled along the road over which humanity had been travelling from remote ages, and how greatly he was imbued with the pagan spirit which he recognised in Goethe and valued in Burckhardt. Even at this early period of his life Nietzsche was convinced that Christianity was the real danger to culture; and not merely modern Christianity, but also the Alexandrian culture, the last gasp of Greek antiquity, which had helped to bring Christianity about. When, in the later aphorisms of We Philologists, Nietzsche appears to be throwing over the Greeks, it should be remembered that he does not refer to the Greeks of the era of Homer or Æschylus, or even of Aristotle, but to the much later Greeks of the era of Longinus.

      Classical antiquity, however, was conveyed to the public through university professors and their intellectual offspring, and these professors, influenced (quite unconsciously, of course) by religious and liberal principles, presented to their scholars a kind of emasculated antiquity. It was only on these conditions that the State allowed the pagan teaching to be propagated in the schools; and if, where classical scholars were concerned, it was more tolerant than the Church had been, it must be borne in mind that the Church had already done all the rough work of emasculating its enemies, and had handed down to the State a body of very innocuous and harmless investigators. A totally erroneous conception of what constituted classical culture was thus brought about. Where any distinction was actually made, for example, later Greek thought was enormously over-rated, and early Greek thought equally undervalued. Aphorism 44, together with the first half-dozen or so in the book, may be taken as typical specimens of Nietzsche’s protest against this state of things.

      It must be added, unfortunately, that Nietzsche’s observations in this book apply as much to England as to Germany. Classical teachers here may not be rated so high as they are in Germany, but their influence would appear to be equally powerful, and their theories of education and of classical antiquity equally chaotic. In England as in Germany they are theologians in disguise. The danger of modern values to true culture may be readily gathered from a perusal of aphorisms

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