Delphi Complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche

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by  Friedrich Nietzsche

The Complete Works of
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
(1844-1900)

Contents
The Philosophical Writings
HOMER AND THE CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY
ON THE FUTURE OF OUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
THE GREEK STATE AND OTHER FRAGMENTS
THE RELATION BETWEEN A SCHOPENHAUERIAN PHILOSOPHY AND
A GERMAN CULTURE
HOMER’S CONTEST
THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY
ON TRUTH AND LIES IN A NONMORAL SENSE
PHILOSOPHY IN THE TRAGIC AGE OF THE GREEKS
THOUGHTS OUT OF SEASON
HUMAN, ALL TOO HUMAN
THE DAWN OF DAY
THE JOYFUL WISDOM
THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS
THE CASE OF WAGNER
THE TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS
THE ANTICHRIST
NIETZSCHE CONTRA WAGNER
THE WILL TO POWER
WE PHILOLOGISTS
The Poetry
LIST OF POEMS
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Autobiography
ECCE HOMO
The Criticism
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE by George Brandes
NIETZSCHE by John Cowper Powys
NIETZSCHE AND WAGNER by Arthur Johnstone
THE GERMAN WAR-TRIUMVIRATE by CHARLES SAROLEA
PROPHETS OF DISSENT: NIETZSCHE by Otto Heller
NIETZSCHE AND OTHER EXPONENTS OF INDIVIDUALISM by Paul
Carus
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The Philosophical Writings
Nietzsche’s birthplace — born on 15 October 1844, he grew up in the small town of Röcken, near Leipzig,
in the Prussian Province of Saxony.
Nietzsche in 1861, aged 17
HOMER AND THE CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY

Translated by J. M. Kennedy

(Inaugural Address delivered at Bâle University, 28th of May 1869.)

At the present day no clear and consistent opinion seems to be held regarding
Classical Philology. We are conscious of this in the circles of the learned just as
much as among the followers of that science itself. The cause of this lies in its
many-sided character, in the lack of an abstract unity, and in the inorganic
aggregation of heterogeneous scientific activities which are connected with one
another only by the name “Philology.” It must be freely admitted that philology
is to some extent borrowed from several other sciences, and is mixed together
like a magic potion from the most outlandish liquors, ores, and bones. It may
even be added that it likewise conceals within itself an artistic element, one
which, on æsthetic and ethical grounds, may be called imperatival — an element
that acts in opposition to its purely scientific behaviour. Philology is composed
of history just as much as of natural science or æsthetics: history, in so far as it
endeavours to comprehend the manifestations of the individualities of peoples in
ever new images, and the prevailing law in the disappearance of phenomena;
natural science, in so far as it strives to fathom the deepest instinct of man, that
of speech; æsthetics, finally, because from various antiquities at our disposal it
endeavours to pick out the so-called “classical” antiquity, with the view and
pretension of excavating the ideal world buried under it, and to hold up to the
present the mirror of the classical and everlasting standards. That these wholly
different scientific and æsthetico-ethical impulses have been associated under a
common name, a kind of sham monarchy, is shown especially by the fact that
philology at every period from its origin onwards was at the same time
pedagogical. From the standpoint of the pedagogue, a choice was offered of
those elements which were of the greatest educational value; and thus that
science, or at least that scientific aim, which we call philology, gradually
developed out of the practical calling originated by the exigencies of that science
itself.