Ein Wille

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It's only fitting that a philologist has irked me to this extent over a single word. The word is "will". I'll see if you can't figure out the philologist (leave a comment). As of earlier this year, I had thought that I had things roughly figured out, as far as identity is concerned. I still do for the most part, but I still have half a year to

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Nietzsche and Thus Spoke Zarathustra are the philologist and his book that brought about this entry, respectively.

Conclusions:
1) Fantastic book, though verbose and hyperbolic in its language.
2) Nietzsche gets a bum rap a lot of the time for his Ubermensch concept. This mostly because it was appropriated by the Nazis. Contrarily, it was Nietzsche's sister, Elizabeth, who gained control of his manuscripts and was the anti-semite. Before the breakdown in 1889, he had written to his sister that he did not approve in the least of her anti-semitic attitudes and did not wish to be associated with hers.
3) Nietzsche's philosophy is among the most life-affirming I've read (which is admittedly very few, though I've dabbled in many).
4) His ideas about pity are something that I am going to try to implement more in my own habits.
5) Everybody of appropriate intellectual ability needs to read this book.

Paul, this is going to sound weird, but did you take ECON 111 (Principles of Microeconomics) with Feldman during Winter term 2005? I'll explain later...