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Some speculate that Nietzsche intended to write about final acts of creation and destruction brought about by Zarathustra. However, the book lacks a finale to match that description; its actual ending focuses more on Zarathustra recognizing that his legacy is beginning to perpetuate, and consequently choosing to leave the higher men to their own devices in carrying his legacy forth.
Zarathustra also contains the famous dictum " God is dead ", which had appeared earlier in The Gay Science. It is the eternal recurrence of the same events. This concept first occurred to Nietzsche while he was walking in Switzerland through the woods along the lake of Silvaplana close to Surlej ; he was inspired by the sight of a gigantic, towering, pyramidal rock.
Apart from its salient presence in Zarathustra , it is also echoed throughout Nietzsche's work. At any rate, it is by Zarathustra's transfiguration that he embraces eternity, that he at last ascertains "the supreme will to power". English translators Thomas Common and R. Hollingdale use superman , while Kaufmann uses overman , and Parkes uses overhuman. Expounding these concepts, Zarathustra declares:. Man is something that shall be overcome.
What have you done to overcome him? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm.
Once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape. But do I bid you become ghosts or plants? The overman is the meaning of the earth.
What have you done to overcome him? This incomplete project began with The Antichrist. Citations are based on reference standards. De repente um coelho passa falando antes de entrar na sua toca. Man is something that shall be overcome.
Let your will say: I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth , and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned themselves, of whom the earth is weary: The book embodies a number of innovative poetical and rhetorical methods of expression.
It serves as a parallel and supplement to the various philosophical ideas present in Nietzsche's body of work.
He has, however, said that "among my writings my Zarathustra stands to my mind by itself" Ecce Homo , Preface, sec. Emphasizing its centrality and its status as his magnum opus , Nietzsche stated that:. With [ Thus Spoke Zarathustra ] I have given mankind the greatest present that has ever been made to it so far.
This book, with a voice bridging centuries, is not only the highest book there is, the book that is truly characterized by the air of the heights—the whole fact of man lies beneath it at a tremendous distance—it is also the deepest , born out of the innermost wealth of truth, an inexhaustible well to which no pail descends without coming up again filled with gold and goodness. Since many of the book's ideas are also present in his other works, Zarathustra is seen to have served as a precursor to his later philosophical thought.
With the book, Nietzsche embraced a distinct aesthetic assiduity. He later reformulated many of his ideas in Beyond Good and Evil and various other writings that he composed thereafter. He continued to emphasize his philosophical concerns; generally, his intention was to show an alternative to repressive moral codes and to avert " nihilism " in all of its varied forms.
This incomplete project began with The Antichrist. While Nietzsche injects myriad ideas into the book, a few recurring themes stand out.
Man as a race is merely a bridge between animals and the overman. The eternal recurrence , found elsewhere in Nietzsche's writing, is also mentioned. The embrace of all of life's horrors and pleasures alike shows a deference and acceptance of fate, or Amor Fati.