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Nietzsche's Library

Postby Boyan on Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:16 pm
I've searched the forums and am surprised I haven't found this posted here.

http://www.nietzschecircle.com/nLibrary01.html

Scroll to the bottom of the page to download the document in pdf format.

This document is priceless for anyone interested in philosophy. Needless to say even more so for those interested in Nietzsche.

It is a compilation of what Nietzsche read, music he listened to, essays he wrote, music he composed, and what is very valuable, the letters he wrote to his friends in which you can observe his character closely. All of this is sorted in a chronological order, by year and month in many cases, so you can ponder the influences works he read had on him and his works.

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Re: Nietzsche's Library

Postby Jamesh on Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:05 am
Yes, some interesting comments here and there, though I've only briefly scanned it so far.

"Letter. To Peter Gast on the 20th: “I have read in Robert Mayer’s book. Friend, he’s a great specialist – and nothing more. I am amazed to find how coarse and naïve he is when it comes to more general constructions. He always thinks he is being wonderfully logical, but in fact he is just being obstinate. If something has been well and truly disproved, he says it is due to the “material” prejudice – even if the disproving comes not from an idealist but from a mathematician – Boscovitch. Boscovitch and Copernicus are the two greatest opponents of optical observation. With effect from him [Boscovitch] there is no “matter” any more – except as a source of popular relief. He has thought the atomistic doctrine through to the end. Gravity is certainly not a “property of matter,” simply because there is no matter. The force of gravity is, like the vis inertiae, certainly a manifestation of force, simply because force is all there is! Now the logical relation between these phenomena and others – for example, heat – is still not at all clear. But if one goes along with Mayer in still believing in matter and in solid corporeal atoms, then one cannot decree that there is only one force. The kinetic theory must attribute to atoms, besides motional energy, the two forces of cohesion and gravity. And this is what all materialist physicists and chemists do! – and Mayer’s best adherents as well. Nobody has abandoned the idea of gravity! Ultimately even Mayer has a second force in the background, the primum mobile, God, - besides motion itself. And he certainly needs God!



This is my area of interest. Nice to see I am in agreement with Nietzsche, and it should be far easier for others to come to the same conclusion considering all the scientific developments since he wrote this, that point to same.

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I wonder how there is no more comments on this, given that Nietzsche is not a stranger to members of this forum.

This document doesn't show much news to me; it's highly compressed and not well organized either as single chapter PDF. The amount of data might even distract from the philosopher and leave us with just an intellectual, a man immersed in art and letters.

Nietzsche's notes and correspondence already has been bundled many times and the books he was impressed (or disgusted) with are normally featured in his works somewhere. Leaves me wondering what the music and reading lists would add really for anyone but the dedicated 'collector'.

That's just me though. Others might find the document useful as quick introduction into Nietzsche's background.