Take note of the reference to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, where a man breaks free from the chains of his perceived reality and finds out that what he previously believed to be the truth only was an illusion. He goes back into the world to preach his new found truth to the people. Zarathustra is a man who, at the age of thirty, left his home, went up into the mountains, stayed there for ten years, and had a revelation while alone in nature. Zarathustra’s Prolouge – short summary and comment Also note that I only quote and comment on the parts of each chapter that I think are essential. I will not write about every chapter, only those I feel I understand and are important to me. Thus Spoke Zarathustra consist of a number of shorter chapters, each dealing with a different subject (although many of them are closely connected). Doing this is just a method I use to actually remember what I read. However, I hope my interpretation is not too wrong. I do not know who influenced Nietzsche, and since TSZ is not his first work, I may miss out on some important references to his earlier works. This is one of the first works of “hard” philosophy I ever read, which means I have no reference points. This will be the first post in what will hopefully be a series of posts containing me discussing and interpreting what Nietzsche tried to convey with Thus Spoke Zarathustra (the Walter Kaufmann edition/translation). Reading Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra – post 1
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