![]() ![]() ![]() The pre-Socratic philosophers with their belief that "man is the measure of all things", all that we know is never universal, necessary and certain. There's no doubt that Zarathustra is speaking what Nietzsche believes. "All poets are liars" but our reality and the lies we believe in give us our values which we must determine by ourselves with no help from any book or prophet nor even from Zarathustra. Zarathustra will challenge everything you think you might know and never lets up on his challenges, "What the populace once learned to believe without reasons, who could- refute it to them by means of reasons?". "Man does not live by bread alone, but also by lamb". ![]() What does it mean for us when there is no longer external truth? He'll even make a statement to the effect that the one who rode the donkey would have reached the same conclusions if he had only had the chance to live longer. He knows that God is dead not that there is no God but that Man (and Woman) no longer have need of him. The prophet, Zarathustra, loosely follows the gospel. Not a fiction book, but not quite a philosophy book in as much it doesn't give a foundation as such, but if anything takes away any structure to the world and challenges everything the listener thought he might have thought he knew as certainty. ![]()
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