mates Zarathustra Alessandra Colla
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"I found the most dangerous of men
that among the beasts,
perilous are the ways of Zarathustra.
can guide my animals, "
FW Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra
is the end of the summer when, Friday, September 21, 1888, Friedrich Nietzsche leaves Sils-Maria, Upper Engadine, to return to Turin. He was there for the first time between April and June of that year, and fell in love at first sight of that city so calm and collected - "the first place where I can ', as he himself wrote . All of this Favor Valley, fascinates him: the fall, exceptionally beautiful, roads, tunnels, buildings full of grace made it a bit 'dusty from history and time, the excellent food, cheap, friendly people who learn soon befriended the gentle retired professor (the guy every night, the restaurant, he carries the "Journal des débats," that keeps the greengrocer from the best fruit ...).
The new sweetness of everyday life - kindness, caring, consistent improvements of health status - increases the intellectual work of Nietzsche, who works at full speed in just a few weeks ends The Antichrist, by printing Twilight of the idols of mid-October and begins the autobiography: Ecce homo. How do you become what you . In late November, he decided to publish the ' Antichrist and it is not the first book of transvaluation of all values, but the transvaluation same.
writes many letters to Brandes, Strindberg in to Gast, Fuchs, and many others, as evidenced by the intense mental excitement, that only seems to subside with the frenetic intellectual production. In mid-December has written a new booklet on Wagner, Nietzsche contra Wagner , and is dedicated to the elaboration of Ecce Homo (the authentic text has been lost, due to charges and cutbacks by Nietzsche's sister, Elisabeth, and by Peter Gast, still we must be content with a reconstruction). Between late December and early January 1889 were born dithyrambs of Dionysus, and at the same time decided not to publish the Nietzsche Contra Wagner . These are the days when the flame flares up in the heart and mind of the philosopher.
Thursday, January 3, 1889, Nietzsche leaves the house. On the road, the Via Po, witnessed a scene not uncommon and is not worse than many other similar recited by actors: a drunken carter beats his horse. Outraged, Nietzsche throws herself into the animal and his tormentor, and the crowd goes knot, runs a police officer. Nietzsche crashes to the ground, lifeless. The landlord, recalled the confusion, rushed into the street, intrudes, he helps her boarder and back home: the professor right back in itself, but is subject to a delusion is intended to continue to do more, as evidenced by the many "tickets of madness" in the days following addressed the audience more diverse - Cosima Wagner, his friends, the Polish people, Umberto I of Savoy. This, in short, the thin story that the house is alarmed to Franz Overbeck, who came panting in Turin on 8 January, once informed of the incident. On January 9, Nietzsche is already in Basel, in the mental hospital - is already out of the story to get into myth.
That last gesture lucid and conscious of Nietzsche has been the defense of an abused animal, it's great. I like to think that this was the materialization of a dazzling understanding - the evil that permeates this world and embraces all his creatures in the whole of cosmic pain that is the fate of the living. In fact, maybe it was not the result of nothing but the need of a life born in the northern European land, growing up in the Protestant religion, soon lighted the pages of Schopenhauer and their message east, naturally rich in a deep and delicious sensitivity: all circumstances very favorable to a benevolent inclination towards every living creature, conscious of a sort Common dictated by life itself.
Instead you often hear the opinion that the very fact of Via Po is the sign par excellence of the "madness" of Nietzsche - 'poor man, hugging a horse .... " And, mind you, not only to say that many of Nietzsche have ears only a few coarse vulgarity and nihilism of the Superman: Nietzsche also some who say it have actually read and studied (including?). Somehow, the few but careful clarifications of Nietzsche on the nature and animals have generally been neglected by critics - at least here in Italy, where traditionally, in spite of St. Francis and despite commendable exceptions, love or even the simple, genuine interest in animals and nature has always been considered the preserve of the poor in spirit, or (more recently) instrument election.
Reviewing the work of the philosopher, instead emerge some significant ideas here that I want to propose to the reader, to discover together one of the most sensitive man who was Zarathustra ..
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