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Question: What is the trick to understanding Nietzsche!?
I am fourteen and have recently started reading my very first Nietzsche book (Beyond Good and Evil)!.
I must say that I am a bit lost!. Do you have any advice!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Read it SLOW and have a dictionary at close range!. You can't really read philosophers like Nietzsche, it's almost as if you have to study them!. This is difficult reading, many of these text are only assigned in 5 page increments at the college level!. If there is a word you don't understand fully, look it up!. also, discuss what you are reading; through the discussion will familiarize with Nietzsche and help the reading as will!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Nietzsche believed that Christianity glorifies the weak

The origin of evil came when the weak said that those with power were evil, and now when we have power we feel guilty because of them, that is what is called our bad conscience

Men truly live in this world to exert their "will to power" that is our ability to show how powerful we are through status, money or fame or physical strengthWww@QuestionHome@Com

read each paragraph over and over!. at first it will be hard to understand but once you begin to understand some things it will get a little easier!. You need to use a sort of hermeneutic circle type of learning for this stuff!. and supplement it with articles from the stanford encyclopedia of philosophyWww@QuestionHome@Com