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Episode 214: More Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part One)

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The Poems of Zarathustra - Book 4

I took this section to be, like on scholars before it, and other sections that he has here and in other books, as a kind of picking on someone who he disagrees with. I think that this is what's interesting about this form at and the lenkh that he goes to, is that it is kind of like a philosophical diary in certain ways. Even though it seems like this is the most formal thing he did, it's not like the aphorism books where he's just sitting down and writing a litle aphorism here and there. He's using this whole narrative structure, not very heavy on the plot, but none the less, i think that despite his choice

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