Fire Philosophy: Nietzsche, Zen, and How to Live

Fire Philosophy: Nietzsche, Zen, and How to Live

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Nietzsche & Goethe: On becoming a Sovereign Individual

Nietzsche & Goethe: On becoming a Sovereign Individual

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In one of Nietzsche’s last books, The Twilight of the Idols, there is a section entitled “The Sovereign Individual.” In it Nietzsche describes the essential qualities of the kind of person he most admired, a “free spirit,” by adopting an image of the German writer, Goethe.

This description focuses on the relationship in Goethe’s character between discip…

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