ALONE WITH YOURSELF
Short aphorisms from the great existentialist on human passions
Some regard their ideal with a wary humility and prefer to deny it; they fear their higher self because, when it speaks, it speaks demandingly.
The best-selling series "Selected» of Acid Publications is enriched with seven new titles, seven new small books, big thoughts, which come to be added to the previous 16 titles.
The thoughts of the inexhaustible and widely read Friedrich Nietzsche are captured in this semi-autobiographical excerpt from "Human, All Too Human," another anthropological study of those still remembered by the people of the 21st century.u century.
Independent thoughts and insightful observations about the passions and desires that struggle to assert themselves, about the all-too-human emotions that cloud the truth, the convenient delusions that make the world go round, and how a spirit can finally be freed—both from prejudice and folly as much as from the prison of his own convictions. Thoughts that are not necessarily lonely, but clearly favored by the self-sufficiency of the intellect that conceived them: Friedrich Nietzsche, completing with equal doses of depth, challenge and rebuke The Human, All Too Human – a work that marks the beginning of his great philosophical journey – , gives its last chapter the title "Alone with Yourself".
About the author:
The leading philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in 1844 in Recken, Saxony, near Leipzig. At the age of 25 he was appointed professor of classics at the University of Basel – renouncing his Prussian citizenship the same year and remaining officially stateless for the rest of his life – from which he resigned for health reasons ten years later, in 1879. He wrote the main volume of his philosophical work over the next decade, before his health finally broke down in 1889 (he died insane and nearly paralyzed in 1900). By denying religion, rejecting "objectivity" and condemning morality he revolutionaryly foreshadowed existentialism and postmodernism, yet it can be argued that aspects of his ideas such as his "creative" nihilism are still not fully understood.
Also featured in the series are:
- The Opening – Sigmund Freud
- The Prophet – Khalil Gibran
- Literary Eutrapelas – Stephen Leacock
- The Bible of the Chosen – Robert Athlyi Rogers
- Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu
- Responses from the Trenches of the 20thu Century – George Orwell
- Civil Disobedience – Henry David Thoreau
- Walking – Henry David Thoreau
- The Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Man – Jerome K. Jerome
- If – Rudyard Kipling
- The Book of Tea – Kakuzo Okakura
- The Book of Five Circles – Miyamoto Musashi
- The Art of War – Sun Tzu
- The Ruler – Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Art of Always Being Right - Arthur Schopenhauer
- The Recognition of the Rights of Woman – Mary Wollstonecraft
