disagree. birth of tragedy is definitely careless but i think that's part of the appeal. it's fun to follow his train of thought, he's very energetic and unironic in a way he isn't even in his late twenties
fair, but if you want to get to his main philosophy i don't think it's that necessary. And if you want to have more background behind his early thought it's probably better to read untimely meditations or philosophy in the tragic age of the greeks. Birth of Tragedy is way overrated, in that i often see people use the apollinian and dionysian split to describe Nietzsche philosophy, when this dichotomy was largely abandoned by him after this book. Also people read this and skip Daybreak? When it's one of the most important books for understaning BGE/GM which Nietzsche says himself in preface to GM. Simply put there are better alternatives.
Does one seriously need to start with the Greeks and work their way through the entire history of philosophy to actually appreciate the works of more modern philosophers?
Not always but with Nietzsche it actually makes sense to know something about them. Nietzsche's biggest point was the critique of transcendental morals that he thought Plato and Christianity were responsible for. If you don't understand how Plato thought about the forms, or how Christianity preaches a focus on the next world, you won't understand why Nietzsche found it much healthier to focus on this world of phenomena.
>GM >BGE >TI >GS >TSZ >WP
General Manager, Business Growth and Expansion, Technology Integration, Global Strategy, Team Synchronization Zone, and Workforce Planning?
As is always the case, the chronological order. If you want to be special, do Twilight of the Idols, Ecce homosexual and Zarathustra, then do everything else, starting with Beyond, then moving onto Antichrist and Gay Science, circling back to The Birth of Tragedy, and reading Genealogy of Morals. Will to Power isn't his official work, more a string of notes that was never finished, so might as well read Bataille's On Nietzsche for one of the more interesting interpretations of his philosophy.
Bottom to top, and left to right thereafter.
You start with the first word, proceeding with the second and then onto the third.
Kant -> Hegel -> Nietzsche
you posted this just to piss me off didn't you. if you've read any nietzsche you know he was vastly more influenced by schopenhauer than hegel
chronologically, except TSZ at the end
you can skip Birth of Tragedy tho
disagree. birth of tragedy is definitely careless but i think that's part of the appeal. it's fun to follow his train of thought, he's very energetic and unironic in a way he isn't even in his late twenties
fair, but if you want to get to his main philosophy i don't think it's that necessary. And if you want to have more background behind his early thought it's probably better to read untimely meditations or philosophy in the tragic age of the greeks. Birth of Tragedy is way overrated, in that i often see people use the apollinian and dionysian split to describe Nietzsche philosophy, when this dichotomy was largely abandoned by him after this book. Also people read this and skip Daybreak? When it's one of the most important books for understaning BGE/GM which Nietzsche says himself in preface to GM. Simply put there are better alternatives.
Just read BAP
Read Stirner first
Does one seriously need to start with the Greeks and work their way through the entire history of philosophy to actually appreciate the works of more modern philosophers?
Yes
No. Just read secondary sources.
Not always but with Nietzsche it actually makes sense to know something about them. Nietzsche's biggest point was the critique of transcendental morals that he thought Plato and Christianity were responsible for. If you don't understand how Plato thought about the forms, or how Christianity preaches a focus on the next world, you won't understand why Nietzsche found it much healthier to focus on this world of phenomena.
Didn't Heidegger say to his students that they need to study Aristotle for 10 years before touching Nietzsche?
Maybe, but he must have said that in order to neuter his students. Nietzschean philosophy is too potent a weapon to give to an unpolluted mind...
Start with the Cheeks
He's just like me.
GM
BGE
TI
GS
TSZ
WP
>GM
>BGE
>TI
>GS
>TSZ
>WP
General Manager, Business Growth and Expansion, Technology Integration, Global Strategy, Team Synchronization Zone, and Workforce Planning?
Geneology of Morals
Beyond Good and Evil
Twilight of the Idols
the Gay Science
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
the Will to Power (unpublished stuff)
Down the hall and to the left
As is always the case, the chronological order. If you want to be special, do Twilight of the Idols, Ecce homosexual and Zarathustra, then do everything else, starting with Beyond, then moving onto Antichrist and Gay Science, circling back to The Birth of Tragedy, and reading Genealogy of Morals. Will to Power isn't his official work, more a string of notes that was never finished, so might as well read Bataille's On Nietzsche for one of the more interesting interpretations of his philosophy.
Start with Thus Spake Zarathustra, then read whatever you want
Chronologically, then reverse chronologically.
I first thought that was Gurdjieff