Friedrich Nietzsche on the Philosophy of Right and the State

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Contents

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pp. v-vi

Translator’s Preface

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pp. vii-viii

In this volume I am offering my translation of Nikos Kazantzakis’ dissertation on Friedrich Nietzsche’s “philosophy of right and the state.” Although Professor Peter Bien, one of the most knowledgeable students of Kazantzakis’ work, translated and commented on this short thesis,¹ I undertook the project mainly ...

Introduction

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pp. ix-xvii

Nikos Kazantzakis, one of the best-known modern Greek authors, was born on February 18, 1883, in Megalokastron, today’s Irakleion, Crete. The author of The Last Temptation of Christ, The Greek Passion, Zorba the Greek, and the monumental modern Greek epic Odyssey remained a controversial figure throughout his entire life. ...

Chapter 1. Prolegomena

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pp. 1-14

Rarely has a philosopher caused so much admiration, or invited such opprobrium, as Nietzsche. At one extreme, his devotees elevate him to the topmost rank of thinkers and herald his teachings as true salvation that has finally descended to cleanse our contemporary intellectual horizon from lies, hypocrisy, and pettiness ...

Chapter 2. [Nihilism]

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pp. 15-22

From one end to the other, Europe is mightily convulsed, seized by a mortal anguish that is swelling little by little, menacing with a pending and unprecedented catastrophe. Harried and rashly impetuous, society is carried away “like a river that is hurrying to reach the end of its flow.”² ...

Chapter 3. [Human Nature]

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pp. 23-42

Until recently, the reigning religious dogmas and philosophic systems declared the human being to be privileged—a being that has a “fully completed nature”—created by the Divine Creator with special care, whose purpose is to rule over all other creatures, endowed with a soul immortal, which he carries ...

Chapter 4. Religion—Morality—Right

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pp. 43-50

So far, it has been demonstrated how disastrously the modern table of values has affected human nature, the Family, and the State—these three concentric manifestations of human energy and sociability. In their turn, these institutions transmit and spread everywhere the malaise that today consumes humanity ...

Chapter 5. [Recapitulation and] Conclusion

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pp. 51-54

We have seen that, in whatever way we inquire into the state of contemporary humanity, we find it in a state of complete decadence. All the most significant ideas, on which contemporary societies are based, ineluctably contribute to this advancing decadence, insofar as they stem from defective conditions ...

Chapter 6. The Positive Aspect of Nietzsche’s Philosophy

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pp. 55-66

Humanity, family, the state, religion, morality, Right—poisoned by the contemporary table of values, handiwork of the slaves¹ and the vanquished— they prod [contemporary humanity] to the indictment and negation of life itself. Is humanity destined to become extinct so soon, or are such despair and discomfiture, ...

Notes

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pp. 67-114

Index

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pp. 115-124