Nietzsche started this chapter with a story about how god created humans. He explained that god was bored and in order to cheer up and get rid of the boredom, he created a man. Boredom then came to an end but only for a short period of time, for soon a man also get bored. In his generosity god created animals to cheer up a man and himself, but that has proven to be his first mistake. Animals had no free will, they were ruled by both god and man and therefore they themselves were boring.
God then created a woman, and that proved to be a success, as with her time of boredom was finally over. However, woman was by nature curious. She persuaded the man to eat from the tree of knowledge and god was overwhelmed by fear. By eating from the tree of knowledge, woman invented a science which equaled man with a god and made them enemies. “When a man becomes a scientist he is done with priests and gods!”.
Science is the first sin, the germ of all sins, original sin. That is the only lesson. - "You don't need to know" - the rest follows from that.
So, by making a man eat from the tree of the knowledge, and making him to know reality, entire mankind became failure for a god and it was all because a woman.
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“The old God, wholly 'spirit', wholly high-priest, wholly perfection, takes a stroll in his garden: but he is bored. Even gods cannot escape boredom. What does he do? He invents human beings, - the human is entertaining . . . But look, even the human is bored. God has boundless
compassion for the only problem in any paradise: soon he creates other animals too. God's first mistake: the human was not amused by the other animals, - he ruled over them, he did not even want to be an 'animal'. -
So God created woman. And this really did put an end to boredom, -but it put an end to other things as well! The woman was God's second mistake. - 'The woman is by nature a serpent, Heva' - every priest knows this; 'woman brings all troubles into the world' - every priest knows this
too. 'Consequently she brings science as well' . . . It was woman .who taught people to eat from the tree of knowledge. - What had happened? The old God was scared stiff. People had turned out to be his biggest mistake…”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (/ˈniːtʃə, -tʃi/;[38] German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈniːtʃə] (
listen) or [ˈniːtsʃə];[39][40] 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24. Nietzsche resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 45, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Nietzsche died in 1900.
Nietzsche's writing spans philosophical polemics, poetry, cultural criticism, and fiction while displaying a fondness for aphorism and irony. Prominent elements of his philosophy include his radical critique of truth in favor of perspectivism; a genealogical critique of religion and Christian morality and a related theory of master–slave morality; the aesthetic affirmation of life in response to both the "death of God" and the profound crisis of nihilism; the notion of Apollonian and Dionysian forces; and a characterization of the human subject as the expression of competing wills, collectively understood as the will to power. He also developed influential concepts such as the Übermensch and his doctrine of eternal return. In his later work, he became increasingly preoccupied with the creative powers of the individual to overcome cultural and moral mores in pursuit of new values and aesthetic health. His body of work touched a wide range of topics, including art, philology, history, music, religion, tragedy, culture, and science, and drew inspiration from Greek tragedy as well as figures such as Zoroaster, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Wagner and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
After his death, his sister Elisabeth became the curator and editor of Nietzsche's manuscripts. She edited his unpublished writings to fit her German ultranationalist ideology while often contradicting or obfuscating Nietzsche's stated opinions, which were explicitly opposed to antisemitism and nationalism. Through her published editions, Nietzsche's work became associated with fascism and Nazism; 20th-century scholars such as Walter Kaufmann, R.J. Hollingdale, and Georges Bataille defended Nietzsche against this interpretation, and corrected editions of his writings were soon made available. Nietzsche's thought enjoyed renewed popularity in the 1960s and his ideas have since had a profound impact on 20th and early-21st century thinkers across philosophy—especially in schools of continental philosophy such as existentialism, postmodernism and post-structuralism—as well as art, literature, poetry, politics, and popular culture.
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