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The Existentialist Path

Nietzsche announces the death of God and the task it leaves us; Unamuno answers with the tragic sense of life. In between: become who you are.

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Philosophy of Religion
Concept · 5 minUp next
God is Dead
Friedrich Nietzsche
The diagnosis everything else responds to.
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The Superman (Übermensch)
Concept · 6 min
The Superman (Übermensch)
Friedrich Nietzsche
What might come after man.
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Eternal Recurrence
Concept · 5 min
Eternal Recurrence
Friedrich Nietzsche
The heaviest thought: would you live it all again?
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Full text · 5 chapters
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
A philosophy disguised as scripture.
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Master and Slave Morality
Concept · 6 min
Master and Slave Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche
Where our values actually came from.
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On the Genealogy of Morality
Full text · 3 chapters
On the Genealogy of Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche’s most rigorous book.
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Metaphysics
Concept · 5 min
Consciousness Is a Disease
Miguel de Unamuno
Unamuno: the wound of being aware.
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The Tragic Sense of Life
Full text · 12 chapters
The Tragic Sense of Life
Miguel de Unamuno
Faith and despair, refusing to let go of each other.
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The Ascetic Ideal
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Last Man
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