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Ecce Homo

How One Becomes What One Is

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Ecce Homo

By: Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrated by: Steven Van Doren
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 Ecce homo, "behold the man", are the words Friedrich Nietzsche chose as the title for his literary self-portrait. A main purpose of the book was to offer Nietzsche's own perspective on his work as a philosopher and human being.

Ecce Homo also forcefully repudiates those interpretations of his previous works purporting to find support there for imperialism, anti-Semitism, militarism, and Social Darwinism.

Nietzsche strives to present a new image of the philosopher and of himself as a philosopher. He expounds upon his life as a child, his tastes as an individual, and his vision for humanity. On these grounds, some consider Ecce Homo a literary work comparable in its artistry to Van Gogh's paintings.

Public Domain (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Aesthetics Ethics & Morality History Movements Philosophers Philosophy Professionals & Academics

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an excellent summation of the philosophy and life written by the man himself.

the sound can become a little stressed and needed to be recorded with a better microphone.

how Friedrich Nietzsche became who he was

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Loved it allowed me to understand Nietzsche and his values, meaning and the purpose in his writings

Very informative clearly defined self analysis

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This book explains well the other books, which is a good start if you ever wanted to dwell into his other works. The ideas like in all his other books are all over the place. Every new sentence of his is filled with a complete new idea that I couldn't fully comprehend unless I read an analyzes from other sources, which disrupts the flow of the book. This is not an easy book to digest. It requires your full attention to details. I had to relisten certain chapters again and again till I fully grasped the idea and when you do actually grasp it - you feel devastated. His ideas are quite nihilistic to the point where it is unbearable. So if you think you are a negative prick try on this beast. Good luck keeping your 'God' after this one.

One of the easiest Nietzsches books to understand

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He’ll claim to know everything better than anyone, the ultimate besserwisser. But that’s what you came for. He’s quite brilliant at that.

Master of his own vanity

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Yes arrogant but so the bible. I didn't find it hard to look last that. Not many insights onto life, but plenty of insights into Nietzche (and his lack of self insight).

Clearly written and well read

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....and thought to myself I really should give this one a go. Although it purports to be a late summary and justification for all of his earlier work, the autobiographical elements in terms of the day to day narrative of his life seem at times to take precedence.

It is not so bad for all of that, however. He is laudatory of Richard Wagner but even this giant of European art and culture seems to play a very muted second fiddle to Nietzsche’s fine opinion of himself. And that’s what principally comes through - most pointedly in the chapter titles - “Why I write such brilliant books,” “How do I manage to stop thinking about the ordinary things in life, in the face of such indifference and intolerance from my family and the local community and get on with being such a beacon of brilliant thought.” Along the way there’s “Isn’t Turin a nice place to live,” and “Aren’t the Germans a bunch of hypocrites and philistines.”

All told, it is good to get down to the original manuscripts and read the text behind the title - a good exercise, but not especially rewarding since so much of this is derivative of the earlier words and this is, in total work at an apologist stage of the cycle.

Watched a Turkish lad buy this from a market stall

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yay saying
truth truth truth life life life now now now affirm affirm affirm save save save yourself be free

truth truth truth

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i enjoyed beyond good and evil tremendously, but this book was hard to get through, a lot of egotistical language, not a fan

too much arrogance for me

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Only made it to chapter 2. The arrogance is too strong in this one, hard to stomach.

nah

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Dreadful, unfeeling, cold, incredibly annoying, automatic-machine-robot-like audible narration. I could not last 20 minutes listening to the narrator utterly destroy the narrative.

American accent!

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