Friedrich Nietzsche

with a prelude in rhymes and an appendix of songs.

The gay science

Soham Dasgupta

 to the voice of your conscience? And what gives you the right to consider such a judgment true and infallible? For this 

 — is there no conscience for that? Have you never heard of an intellectual conscience? A conscience behind your “conscience”? Your judgment “this is right” has a pre-history in your instincts, likes, dislikes, experiences, and lack of experiences. “How did it originate there?” you must ask, and then also: “What is it that impels me to listen to it?” You can listen to its commands like a good soldier who hears his officer’s command. Or like a woman who loves the man who commands. Or like a flatterer and coward who is afraid of the commander. Or like a dunderhead who obeys because no objection occurs to him. In short, there are a hundred ways in which you can listen to your conscience. But that you take this or that judgment for the voice of conscience — in other words, that you feel something to be right — may be due to the fact that you have never thought much about yourself and simply have accepted blindly that what you had been 

 ever since your childhood was right; or it may be due to the fact that what you call your duty has up to this point brought you sustenance and honors — and you consider it “right” because it appears to you as your own “condition of existence” (and that you have a 

A new translation and edition of this important and influential statement of Nietzsche's philosophy.

With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Nietzsche: The Gay Science

Max Bodach

"No one sharpens the mind like the whetstone of Nietzsche" - Sugrue

Michelle Xu

I read this for the Existentialism class.

I found this easier to comprehend than On the Genealogy of Morality. I'm also not sure how this book is typically read or taught in a normal philosophy class, because my class was focused on Existentialism.

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Mykyta Barabanov

Jefferson Bottega

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him." This is the book in which Nietzsche made his boldest declaration, along with discussions of morality, knowledge, and truth.

The gay science with a prelude in rhymes and an appendix of songs.

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