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Human, All-Too-Human: A Book for Free Spirits, Part 2

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Translated by Paul V. Cohn

"Human, All-Too-Human: A Book for Free Spirits, Part 2" by Friedrich Nietzsche consists of two collections of aphorisms published in 1879 and 1880. These brief, incisive paragraphs explore human nature, morality, religion, and metaphysics through Nietzsche's emerging perspectivism. Marking his break from German Romanticism and Wagner, these works adopt a positivist approach influenced by French aphorists like La Rochefoucauld. The aphorisms challenge conventional Christian morality and contain seeds of concepts crucial to Nietzsche's later philosophy, combining cynical insights with historical consciousness and philosophical argument.

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