If you read Schopenhauer and Nietzsche's work, which you'd have the advantage in doing because the original is in German, it would put anything I have tried to say better than I could, except that they speak like 19th century professors and I'm a layperson from 2016.
You can skip around the Nietzsche books. Most of them he writes in epigrams and I don't think you need to read them in order. I think you'd think they are fascinating just on their own. Schopenhauer did the same thing, writing in epigrams, in a short book he wrote called Parerga and Paralipomena.
There are a lot of easy to read books from around this decade that go over the history of philosophy which is the only background someone needs. Nietzsche refers to Hegel and Spinoza sometimes for instance.
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Date: 3 December 2016 08:27 pm (UTC)You can skip around the Nietzsche books. Most of them he writes in epigrams and I don't think you need to read them in order. I think you'd think they are fascinating just on their own. Schopenhauer did the same thing, writing in epigrams, in a short book he wrote called Parerga and Paralipomena.
There are a lot of easy to read books from around this decade that go over the history of philosophy which is the only background someone needs. Nietzsche refers to Hegel and Spinoza sometimes for instance.