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When I was young, everyone read Nietzsche.
This text was originally prepared as an oral presentation written for a conference on Nietzsche at the Research Center of the Evangelical Student Organization, Heidelberg, 1981, with the title “Notes of a Physicist on Nietzsche.” Originally published in Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Wahrnehmung der Neuzeit, Hauser: Munich, 1983, pp. 70–106. [The translated text has been minimally abridged for the present volume — Ed.]
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This text was originally prepared as an oral presentation written for a conference on Nitezsche at the Research Center of the Ecangelical Student “Organization, Heidelberg, 1981, with the title Notes of a Physicist on Nietzsche.” Originally published in Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Wahrnehmung der Neuzeit Hauser: Munich, 1983, pp. 70–106. [The translated text has been minimally abridged for the present volume — Ed.]
Thus Spoke Zarathustra III, The Convalescent 2.
Hypothetically, Nietzsche assigns it to Heraclitus: in Ecce homo, “On the Birth of Tragedy,” Number 3. See the translation by R.J Hollingdale, Penguin: Harmondsworth, 1979.
See my The Implications of Science,Lecture 8.
Beyond Good and Evil,trans. R.J.Hollingdale, Penguin: Harmondsworth, 1973.
; unpublished.
See m “Garden of Humanity”, 472–487: see also the last three essays for clarity. y ~. y„ pP. Y greater.
BGE 2, Nietzsche’s italics.
In “Are We Approaching an Ascetic World Culture,” reprinted in “The Threatened Peace,” I have tried to pursue these questions: is there such a thing as democratic asceticism?
Nietzsche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe,Ed. G. Colli M. Montinari, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1967–1977, VII, 23 [36], 556. Hereafter abbreviated as KSA.
KSA XIII, 14 [109], 286.
KSA XI, 40 [27], 643.
KSA IX, II [211], 525.
See Human, All Too Human,The Wanderer and his Shadow,” 284.
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Von Weizsäcker, C.F. (1999). Nietzsche: Perceptions of Modernity. In: Babich, B.E. (eds) Nietzsche, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 204. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2428-9_18
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