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Critique of values · 1844–1900

Friedrich Nietzsche

Dare to question the obvious.

Röcken · Basel · an itinerant Europe
Portraits: artistic interpretations
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Reading guides

A thread to guide your reading.

Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.

Friedrich NietzscheA place to begin

When certainties begin to shift

Approach The Gay Science as a laboratory: learn to question your certainties without confusing clarity, cynicism and withdrawal from life.

The Gay Science
8 min
Friedrich NietzscheGoing further

Where do our values come from?

Follow the three inquiries of On the Genealogy of Morality: how history, affects and relations of power enter into our evaluations.

On the Genealogy of Morality
9 min
Friedrich NietzscheA demanding read

Entering a demanding fable

Read Thus Spoke Zarathustra beyond its famous formulas: a work of transformation, solitude and returns to the world.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra
9 min
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Bring perspectives into conversation.

Continue with other ways of asking the question.

Socratic questioning

Socrates

Rationalism · Naturalism

Baruch Spinoza

Existentialism & feminist thought

Simone de Beauvoir

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