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The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Twilight of the Idols, by Friedrich Nietzsche.

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CONTENTS TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE PREFACE MAXIMS AND MISSILES THE PROBLEM OF SOCRATES “REASON” IN PHILOSOPHY MORALITY AS THE ENEMY OF NATURE THE FOUR GREAT ERRORS THE “IMPROVERS” OF MANKIND THINGS THE GERMANS LACK SKIRMISHES IN A WAR WITH THE AGE THINGS I OWE TO THE ANCIENTS THE ANTICHRIST THE ETERNAL RECURRENCE NOTES TO ZARATHUSTRA [Pg vii] The Twilight of the Idols was written towards the end of the summer of 1888, its composition seems to have occupied only a few days,—so few indeed that, in Ecce Homo (p. 118), Nietzsche says he hesitates to give their number; but, in any case, we know it was completed on the 3rd of September in Sils Maria. The manuscript which was dispatched to the printers on the 7th of September bore the title: “Idle Hours of a Psychologist”; this, however, was abandoned in favour of the present title, while the work was going through the press. During September and the early part of October 1888, Nietzsche added to the original contents of

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Twilight of the Idols, by Friedrich Nietzsche. *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 52263 *** THE TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS BY FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Or, How to Philosophise with the Hammer THE ANTICHRIST NOTES TO ZARATHUSTRA, AND ETERNAL RECURRENCE TRANSLATED BY ANTHONY M. LUDOVICI The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche The First Complete and Authorised English Translation Edited by Dr Oscar Levy Volume Sixteen T.N. FOULIS 13 & 15 FREDERICK STREET EDINBURGH: AND LONDON 1911 CONTENTS TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE PREFACE MAXIMS AND MISSILES THE P

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