| THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA FIRST PART |
| 1)Ubermensche/overman/superman: an actualization of human potential -people who �raise themselves above the all-too-human masses� 2)Zarathustra is descending down off the mountaintop to visit man -like the sun setting, giving light to the underworld -meaning he is leaving his enlightened position to go to the masses and divest unto them the overflow of knowledge that he has >like the sun giving light to the world because it has more than it can use >like the sun, his �wealth� of knowledge does little good unless he gives and shares it with others 3)Advice from Old Man in the Forest -Z went into the mountains and came back down enlightened >he �became a chilled� -Z proclaims that God is dead -old man believes that man will not appreciate, and does not deserve, and will distrust Z�s gift of enlightenment 4)In the Town Square -�man is something that shall be overcome� -man is to overman what animals are to man -overman remains faithful to the earth -don�t think about what happens after you die >people who do so don�t like their current life -do not disdain the physical body or its physical elements -man is a polluted stream >a polluted stream will pollute another body of water unless that other body of water is large enough >the overman is that large body of water >the overman can incorporate the polluted aspects of mankind without being himself brought down by those impure traits -religion is not good if: >it praises/focuses on other worlds or other existences than this >it teaches to loathe and have contempt for this body and its physical entrapments >it teaches to have contempt for pleasure 5)Tightrope Walker -man is the meeting point between the beast and the overman -man is not an end in itself 6)The Teachers of Virtue -�religion is the opiate of the masses� -describing religion as sleep >teaching that the entire point of life is dedication to religion/virtue >by gaining virtue you are truly happy >that you can be content once virtue is attained 7)The Afterworldly -god(s) is/are the creation of man -the afterworld was created because of people who were suffering and incapacitated in this world -created a reason to look forward to something -instead of putting faith in religion, >put one�s faith in one�s own body >the body is more honest and �it speaks of the meaning of the earth� 8)Despisers of the Body -the soul considers itself an end/the end -the self seeks more, controls, compares, overpowers, destroys -the self uses all other things as tools >including the mind and the ego >the self can make the ego suffer *the self has the capacity to act on the ego -the body controls the self which in turn controls the ego, the senses and the spirit >when the ego is acted upon, it reacts and attempts to compare and learn how to continue or discontinue the self-imposed stimulation -religion does not lead to the overman -religion created respect and contempt >respect for the spirit as an end and for the afterworld >contempt for things that disdain the spirit and lead away from the afterworld -in actuality, the self created respect and contempt -the body controls the self, and therefore, can control what it respects and has contempt for 9)The Pale Criminal -criticizing the legal system >re; what basis people are judged to be criminals, to be guilty, and therefore how they are sentenced -only judge and punish the act >never the thought >everyone has �evil� thoughts -�good� and �evil� are subjective things that change with time >�another age and another evil and good� >but people don�t want to hear/admit that their values and ideas of wrong and right change with time 10)Reading and Writing -not everyone should be literate -literacy and the knowledge that comes with it are special things >should not be wasted on �idlers� |