Beyond Good and Evil #1: Faith in Opposite Values (Preface & I.1-I.5)
The Nietzsche Podcast
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The Origins of Nietzsche's Vedanta
Nietzsche is mostly responding to Schopenhauer here, and that's probably the majority of where his understanding of Vedanta comes from. Platonism is in many ways Nietzsche thinks the, he sees it as like, I don't want to call it an original sin, right? Because he fundamentally doesn't regard it as sin. And the original sin of man is this thing that stains us and curses us and is part of our essence and who we are.
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