The Joyful Science consists of five books, along with a preface for the second edition, a prologue in German rhymes titled Funny, Cunning, and Revenge, and an appendix of poems titled Songs of Prince Ekton.
This book addresses the fundamental themes of Nietzsche's reflections: the purpose of existence and what is noble and what is common in light of absolute duties; intellectual consciousness and consciousness in general; feelings of power, ancient pride, distinction; passions such as generosity, nobility, and pain.
Also, the reality of the creation of artists, ethics and aesthetics, women and their relationship to purity and motherhood; knowledge, with its origins and vast domain, faith, happiness, self-mastery, wisdom in pain and greatness; and finally, origins in general: the origins of logic, of the wise, of religions, even of the very concept of knowledge.
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Product Details
- Author
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- Publisher
- Panoptikon
- Original Title
- Die frohliche wissenschaft
- Language
- Greek
- ISBN-13
- 9789609470056
Edition
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 242
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- Release Date
- 4/2010
- Publication Date
- 2010
Content
- Philosophical Movement/School
- Existentialism
- Reader Level
- Classic Texts
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