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Nietzsche's Notebooks in English Nietzsche’s Last Notebooks 1888 By Fredrick Nietzsche (1844-1900) Translator Daniel Fidel Ferrer. See: “Nietzsche’s Notebooks in English: a Translator’s Introduction and Afterward” at the end of the text, pages 265 to 272. June 2012. German notebooks included in this translation: 12[1-2] Anfang 1888 13[1-5] Anfang 1888 - Frühjahr 1888 14[1-227] Frühjahr 1888 (first note says: Nizza, den 25. März 1888) 15[1-120] Frühjahr 1888 16[1-89] Frühjahr - Sommer 1888 17[1-9] Mai - Juni 1888 18[1-17] Juli - August 1888 19[1-11] September 1888 20[1-168] Sommer 1888 21[1-8] Herbst 1888 22[1-29] September - Oktober 1888 23[1-14] Oktober 1888 24[1-10] Oktober - November 1888 25[1-21] December 1888 - Januar 1889 [12 = W II 4. Beginning 1888] 12 [1] Register for the first book. (1) The whole previous history of philosophy to history as the truth of will. IV (2) Temporary predominance of the social value emotions understandably, 1 to establish a foundation. IV (3) Criticism of the good man, not the hypocrisy of good... II (4) Kant's worth I (5) To characterize the national genius. I (6) Aesthetics III (7) "Spirituality” and not merely commanding lead III (8) Formulate as a culmination point of God; decrease of him III (9) Offenbach music IV (10) Priest II (11) For a critique of Christian morality of the New Testament. II (12) each of reinforced kind of man to the level of a lower standing IV (13) War against the Christian ideal, not only against the Christian God II (14) Francis of Assisi struggling against hierarchy II (15) Socrates against the noble instincts, against art II (16) the vices and the culture II (17) the big lies in the history II (18) the Christian interpretation of death II (19) the eternal-constant, value question III (20) Replacement of morality by the will of our goals and, consequently, its agents give praise to... IV (21) Forgeries in psychology. II (22) Renan assaults about "science" I (23) Correction of the term "egoism" IV (24) military terms IV (25) Future of asceticism IV (26) Future of worker IV (27) Nihilism I (28) "Truth," our preservation conditions as predicates of being projected III (29) Measure of unbelief, of approved "freedom of spirit" as a measure of power IV (30) Criticism and rejection of the term "objective" III (31) extreme form of nihilism: to what extent a divine way of thinking IV (32) Dionysian: Towards a new type of the divine, my difference from the beginning of Schopenhauer. IV (33) "What for?" The question of nihilism and the attempts to get answers I (34) the rank order is missing, the cause of nihilism. Attempts to higher types think up... I (35) what the great human cost has. IV (36) the will to truth III (37) Find and put in sense- III (38) more of the child's grandparents (39) New Testament: caution! II (40) condemnation of the modern will to power IV (41) courage as a boundary, where the "true" is recognized... III (42) Music - the strong tradition. Offenbach, as against the German music is a degenerate. (43) the value of a human being not measurable by its effects. "Gentility" IV 2 (44) Art philosophy of life, not art to discover the truth Epicurus. The history of philosophy. IV (45) good expressions... (46) Will to truth: immense self-reflection. III (46) Will to truth IV (47) the epistemological basic postures and their relation to the highest values III (48) Hawk (Colportage) philosophy. To the ideals of the psychologist IV (49) what is the point, value revaluation. IV (50) La Rochefoucauld and J. Mill, the latter absolutely flat, the former naive... "selfishness" III (51) "Benefit" depends on "targets": utilitarianism. III (52) the fear of God before the people knowledge as a means to power, to "equality with God." Value. The history of philosophy - III (53) Illusory, futility, the "real" III (54) To characterize the "strong" IV (55) the "posthumous" - question the clarity and authority II (56) Prerequisite for a revaluation of values IV (57) As the fame of virtue arises II (58) the praise and gratitude - as will to power III (59) the psychological forgeries under the rule of herd-instinct II (60) Herd-instinct: what states and desires, he says. II (61) The denaturalization of morality and their steps II (62) the suppressed moral II (63) the New Testament II (64) Knowledge and becoming III (65) Combating determinism III (66) Restoration of asceticism. IV (67) Law of contradiction III (68) Derivation of our faith in reason III (69) Superstition of the "genus" II (70) Aesthetics III (71) to plane I (71) "Subject" thing in itself III (72) Nihilism I (73) Future of the Jews (74) The descriptive, the picturesque - his nihilistic element. I (75) Aesthetics III (76) to the plane. (77) The 18th century. I (78) Future of Art IV (79) The great man, the criminal III (80) Progress of the naturalization of the 19th Century. I (81) my "nihilism" I (82) Morality as a means of seduction, II 3 as will to power (83) Voltaire and Rousseau I (84) The main symptoms of pessimism I (85) critical stress: the Extreme obesity. 19th Century. I (86) Critique of modern man, his psychological hypocrisy - his romantic attitude I (87) 18 Century. I (88) Thierry, the popular uprising even in science. I (89) Future of Education: culture of the exception IV (90) "Responsible to his conscience," Luther's cunning: his will to power II (91) Instinct of civilized humanity against the big man III (92) all the best of a bad made subservient Formerly III (93) justifying morality. Recapitulation. IV (94) modern vice I (95) "Culture" in contrast to "civilization" I (96) New Testament and Petronius. II (97) the logical plausibility III (98) Morphology of the will to power II (99) against Rousseau I (100) as a virtue comes to power II (101) Metamorphosis and sublimation (the cruelty, falsehood, etc). II (102) such as hostile tendencies come to honor. II (103) Look of appreciation III (104) Duality, physiologically, as a result of the will to power III (105) the strengths of the future IV (106) the growth in the high and the bad belong together III (107) Virtue without estimate today: because there they would have one as vice circulate IV (108) the historical forgeries in psychology II (109) principal of falsification of history, so they have a proof furnishes for the morale II (110) Overall-reckoning with the moral: what you want in power? III (111) the moral values in the theory of knowledge III (112) the moral values master (Herr) of the Aesthetic II (113) Causes for the emergence of pessimism I (114) the historical forgeries under the rule of morality: scheme. II (115) Modernity I (116) classically: the future aesthetics IV (117) Fashion traders and middlemen I (118) Modernity I (119) Century 18th or older and Schopenhauer I (120) Counterfeiting of modern artists. I (121) modern separation of "public" and "dining room (Coenakel)" I (122) the preface. Deepest meditation. Before. (123) whose selfishness takes their money in the maintenance of moral tyranny II (124) justifying review of the dire consequence of moral tyranny. IV (125) the patronage of virtue (greed, lust, etc. II 4 (126) Spinoza, Goethe as the holy (127) in conclusion: a Goethean view of love, real overcoming of pessimism IV (128) the three centuries I (129) Goethe's attempt to overcome one of the 18 Century IV why Goethe is missing as an expression of the 19 Century? IV (130) The German strong type IV (131) Mockery of the taxonomist (132) Schopenhauer as the one who takes Pascal back I (133) the 17th century and 18th. I (134) Rousseau and Voltaire c. 1760; Rousseau influence on the romantic period. I (135) the problem of "civilization" I (136) Question of the value of modern humans? Whether his strong and weak sides belong to one another. I (137) my five no(s): the preface? IV 2th Book (138) Yes my new way to IV (139) how to become masters of the renaissance ideal of I (140) in honor of the 19th century. IV (141) ashamed to be a Christian IV (142) After effect of Christian providence which we owe to Christianity... I (143) to justify the moral IV (144) "Reactive" Idealism and its counterpart II (145) the economic assessment of the current ideals IV (146) Exploitation of man by virtue: virtue machinery IV (147) Altruism in the biology! III (148) Advantage of the continuum IV (149) "Lower" and "higher" existence? IV (150) Excretion of luxury surplus of mankind. the two movements IV (151) "Modernity" I (152) Subject, substance III (153) Sympathy as insolence similarly, "objectivity" of the critic I (154) Pessimism of strength. I (155) Overall-insight about nihilism I (156) Overall-insight about the ambiguous character of our modern world I (157) With the art to fight the moralization IV (158) romanticism: the false amplification I (159) The rule justify IV (160) Science, two values IV (161) Culture complex, not society IV (162) Barbarism is not matter of choice IV (163) Increase the power of man-overall: to what extent they all kind of decline due. IV (164) For the politics of virtue: as they come to power like it when the power is reached, there II 5 (165) Artists not people of great passion (166) Means of making a virtue to victory II (167) lascivious melancholy of the Moorish dance: the modern fatalism. I (168) modern art, to tyrannize as art. I (169) Means of making a virtue of the victory.
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