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74.
— as a preparatory state to Nihilism, xiv. 11; the pessim-
ism of strong natures, 23; the infancy of Euro-
pean, 27; causes effecting its rise, 28; its ex-
pression of the uselessness of the modern world,
29; the development of Nihilism out of, 30; the
misuse of the term, 31; not a problem but a
symptom, 32; the main symptoms of, 68; as
following necessarily in the wake of enlighten-
ment, 73.
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
Pessimism in art, xv. 263; of strength, 398; the principal
kinds of, 400.
Petrarch, his name inscribed on the banner of enlighten-
ment, vi. 42.
Pforta, the school at, xvii. 31.
Pharisaism and the good man, xii. 95.
Phenomenalism, the, of the inner world, xv. 7-12.
Phidias, alluded to, i. 104.
— alluded to, ii. 155.
— again, vii. 94.
Philanthropy and misanthropy, x. 188.
— as a show word, xiv. 67.
— another commandment of—propagation, xv. 193.
Philistine, the, the signification of the word, iv. 11; David
Strauss as the typical, 19; admissions of, during
unguarded moments, 21; as the founder of the
religion of the future, 27; the destruction
wrought on great minds by, 35; the Straussian
type of, 41-2 ; innate cowardice—the birthright
of, 49; why the metaphysics of Strauss are pre-
ferable to, 57.
— the craving of, vii. 18.
Philistinism, the German as the true virtuoso of, ii. 66.
Philo, alluded to, v. 44.
Philologist, the, says "forgery" to Christianity, xvl
197.
— his use of books, xvii. 48.
Philologists, the relationship between our classics and
classical education often not seen by, iii. 61;
the younger generation of, 77-8; their occupa-
tions, 79; addressed, 80; and the science of
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PHILOLOGISTS—PHILOLOGY
language, 81; new and exclusive generation of,
Philologists, the incapacity of the majority of, viii. 110; re-
sults, i11; born philologists, 115; their attitude
toward antiquity, 117; impressions left by the
meditation of the past, 118; the peculiarly
significant situation of, 128; and the system of
education, 137; origin of, 139; the desire of,
as imitative artists, 139; Wolf's judgment on
amateur philologists, 144; a guild of sky pilots,
not known as such, 145; I know them—J myself
am one of them, 146; is the present time under-
stood by? 149; observations in, 150; the in-
herited characteristic of, 151 ; and the Greeks,
153; the consideration of Greek mythology by,
162; the mission of, 178.
Philology, academic, iii. 129; Homer and Classical
Philology (inaugural address delivered at Bale
university, 28th May 1869), 145-70; the relation
of, to several other sciences, 145; its friends and
enemies, 147.
— the aim of, suggested, vi. 248; and the art of reading
rightly, 249.
— as the science of antiquity, viii. 112; the difficulty of
valuing, 114; present culture, antiquity, and,
118; the greatest events in, 120; the most
favoured science at present, 122; and the prefer-
ence for antiquity, 123; as a means of instruc-
tion, 126; the prejudices for the preference for
antiquity, 127 ; and the humanitarian, 135; the
sad story of, 140; classical philology as the
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
basis of the most shallow rationalism, 145;
matters regarding which antiquity instructs us,
148; at best Don Quixotism, 180.
Philology, the philology of Christianity, ix. 84; on the so-
called classical education, 194.
— books, and the purpose of, x. 139.
— the theologian's lack of capacity for, xvi. 206.
Philosopher, the, Schopenhauer and the characteristic of
honesty, v. 115; and nature's unreason, 177;
conditions favourable to, 180; again, 184; the
obstacle to the growth of nature's philosopher,
185; the university standard of, 189; examples
of university philosophers in Nietzsche's day,
191-2; advantages to, if philosophy were de-
prived of its political and academic standing,
195; bad philosophers easy to get rid of, 195;
the risk of, of infinitely more importance than
that a State or university should continue, 199.
— where he finds it easier to prove, vi. 131.
— remains an individual, viii. 114.
— a critic of morals regarded as the eyil principle, ix.
346; and old age, 368-72.
— the unfolding of, x. 6; his evil hour, 256; the word
invented by modesty in Greece, 293; the dance,
as his ideal and also his art, 351.
— Zarathustra meets a sublime one—a solemn one, a
penitent of the spirit, xi. 138; the wisest silent
ones, 211.
— the influence of his instincts on his conscious think-
ing, xii. 8; the long and serious study of the
average man necessary to, 38; his task
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PHILOSOPHER
lightened by the Cynics, 39; his ever ready
mistrust, 49; the possible elevation of beyond
grammar, 50; his use of religion in his discip-
lining and educating work, 79-81; the dangers
besetting his development, 136; mistaken and
confused by the multitude, 137; the fearless
bearing of the genuine philosopher, 138; re-
garded with apprehension if he repudiates
scepticism, 142 ; not to be confounded with the
philosophical worker and scientific man, 151;
the real philosopher as commander and law-
giver, 152; as the indispensable man for to-
morrow, in contradiction with the day in which
he lives, 153; his conception of greatness in
man, 154; his definition of greatness, 155; the
truly philosophical combination, 155; the cor-
responding gradation of rank between psychic
states and philosophical problems, 156; as a
predestined man, 157; the verdict of the recluse
on, 257; defined, 258.
Philosopher, points of recognition, xiii. 139-40; his " mater-
nal" instinct, and secret love for that which grows
in him, 140; his tendencies, and their direction,
143-
— considered as a development of the priestly type, xiv.
119; as reactionary, 345; a criticism, 357; the
retrograde factor in, 368.
— the ways in which he recuperates his strength, xv.
100; must be our lawgiver, 378; as educator,
. 378; the more lofty, in his loneliness, 380; the
dangers and torments in reserve for him, 380.
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
Philosopher, his load, xvi. 2; to beware of speaking the
truth, 100.
Philosophers, inherited faults of, vi. 14.
— a hereditary sin of, vii. 14; and artists of the
age, 97-
— morality as the veritable Circe of, ix. 3; young men
and reconciliation, 351.
— their feeling of being furthest removed from priestly
natures, x. 291; priestly natures as regarded by,
293-
— philosophers as the advocates of the people—the
famous wise ones, xi. 120-4.
— Prejudices of, (Chap, i. ) xii. 5-34; the poses of, 9; their
moral purposes, 10-1; the absence of anything
impersonal in, 12 ; a warning to, against martyr-
dom for truth's sake, 36; an alternative course
for, 37; the new order of, designated "the Temp-
ters," 57; their attitude towards truth, 57 ; their
critical attributes, 149-51; as commanders and
law-givers, 152.
— shudder at marriage, xiii. 135; as judges of the value
of the ascetic ideal, 136; that which to them is
most indispensable, 136-7; the desert which
forms their hermitage of retreat, 138; points of
recognition, 139; things shunned by—fame,
princes, women, 140; their motto—he who pos-
sesses is possessed, 140; concerning their chastity,
141.
— their prejudices, xiv. 327; other characteristics, 328;
their highest ideal, 337; confounded with men
of science, 337; concerning the psychology of,
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PHILOSOPHERS—PHILOSOPHY
343; truths and errors of, 369-78; why they are
slanderers, 378-81.
Philosophers, the reason why they are mostly failures, xv.
377; the new philosophers characterised, 382.
— their idiosyncrasies, xvi. 17 ; lack of historical sense,
17; hatred of the idea of becoming, 17; their
Egyptianism, 17; their confusing of the last and
first things, 19.
Philosophic brains, the difference between, and others, vii.
28-30.
Philosophic systems likened to mirages in the desert of
science, vii. 26.
Philosophical ideas, the relationship between, xii. 28;
affinity of language and the family resemblance
of, 29.
Philosophical novices, vi. 378.
Philosophically minded, on being, vi. 390.
Philosophy, its effects on the health of a nation, ii. 75 ; use
made of, by the early Greeks, 76; without rights,
85.
— banished from our universities, iii. 130.
— a man distinguished by the use he makes of, iv. 118;
the plight of, to-day, 120.
— the artificial conditions under which it exists to-day,
v. 42; the asylum offered by, to mankind, 122;
every philosophy that believes the problem of
existence to be shelved is a sham, 134; the en-
couragement of, what it means, 186; its con-
cessions to the State, 187; the most dangerous
concession made, 189; culture would be encour-
aged if philosophy were deprived of its political
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
and academic standing, 195; infinitely more
important than State or university, 199; the
dignity of, 200.
Philosophy, the chemistry of ideas and sensations, vi. 13;
its appreciation of unpretentious truths, 15; the
question over which it separated from science,
19; a substitute for a religion, 42; fidelity as a
proof of validity, 234.
— to the disillusioned in, vii. 13; fallen forfeit to his-
tory? 16; three thinkers like one spider, 103;
wherein its value lies, 105; every philosophy re-
lates to a period of life, 135; the philosophic life
misinterpreted, 17 r; the philosophy that society
always needs, 175; distrust leads to silence and
laughter, 300-2.
— and reconciliation, ix. 351; the ancient and present
practice of, 374; the struggle for tyranny over
the intellect, 377; the circuitous routes of per-
sonal impulses, 385.
— the inspiring motive of, x. 4-5; not truth, but health,
futurity, growth, power, life, 5-6; as a fructifying
Sun, 222; a call for many such new Suns, 223;
the spirit of the race in, 305; Leibnitz, Kant,
and Hegel instanced, 306; the universal events
of, 307; Schopenhauer instanced, 307; Bahnsen
and Mainlander, 310; regarded as a healing
appliance to struggling life, 332.
— the preachers of indifference—that wisdom wearieth,
xi. 251; Zarathustra taunts the world-weary ones
with being sneaking pleasure-cats, 253.
— hitherto unconscious autobiography, xii. 10; always
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PHILOSOPHY—PHYSICIAN
creates the world in its own image, xii.
14; effects
of our deepest insights on two classes of minds—
the esoteric and the exoteric, 43; methods
of modern philosophy, 72; as epistemological
criticism antichristian, though by no means anti-
religious, 72; the question of its rank with science,
133; how disdained by young naturalists and old
physicians, 134; the resultant ill-will to all phil-
osophy, 135; on degenerate philosophy and
philosophers, 136; its relation to criticism, 151;
corresponding gradations of rank between psy-
chical states and the problems of, 156; a person
has rights to, only by virtue of his descent, 157;
the study of the rule in its struggle with the ex-
ception, recommended to psychologists, 162;
hedonism and systems dealing only with pleasure
and pain as plausible naivetes, 171 ; the recluse's
verdict on, 257.
Philosophy, the bond between it and the ascetic ideal,
xiii. 142-3.
— a criticism of, (Pt. iii. Bk. ii. ) xiv. 327-84.
— the history of, a story of a secret and mad hatred of
the prerequisites of life, xiv. 379.
— a decadent human institution, xv. 239.
— reason in, (Chap. iii. )xvi. 17-23; ruined by the blood
of theologians, 135.
— as understood by Nietzsche—a retirement into regions
of ice, xvii. 3.
Phoenicians, the, the inventors of the Polis, viii. 160.
Physician, the, his future, vi. 225; the most dangerous of
physicians, 269.
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
Physician, on living without a doctor when possible,
ix. 273.
— a moral for doctors, xvi. 88-90; says incurable to
Christianity, 197.
Physicists, their belief in a true world after their own kind,
xv. 120.
Physics, the concept energy, xv. 110; the atom, 112 ; the
feeling of force, 113.
— its suppositions regarding energy, xvi. 241.
Physiology and consciousness, x. 296.
— a preliminary to the study of, xii. 22.
Piccini, his dispute with Gluck, vii. 272.
Picture galleries, on the use of, instead of the studio of
the master, v. 92.
Pictures, lessons from, vi. 386.
Piety, how far it obscures, vii. 107.
Pilate (Pontius), vii. 16.
— the one figure in the New Testament worth respect-
ing, xvi. 195 ; what is truth 1 196.
Pindar, the linguistic art of, i. 52; alluded to, 104.
— the lyrist, ii. 40; alluded to, 59.
— alluded to, vi. 241.
— quoted, xvi. 127.
Pioneers, the men required for, x. 218; an exhortation and
promise to, 219; more worlds to discover—aboard
ship I 222.
— he who is a firstling is ever sacrificed, xi. 244; the
direction of their nobility—exiles shall ye be from
all fatherlands and forefatherlands, 248.
Piron, Voltaire's revenge on, vii. 316.
Pisistratus, the Homeric poems inthetimeof, iii. 153 ; what
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PITY
was meant by Homer in his time, 15 5; his period,
163.
Pity, on the wish to arouse, vi. 68; Plato and the weaken-
ing of the soul by, 68; the thirst for self-grati-
fication, 69; its aims, 103; estimation of, 103.
— how simulated vii. 39; on, 170; the expression of,
regarded as a sign of contempt, 223.
— an analysis of—on " no longer thinking of one's self,"
ix. 141; to what extent we must beware of, 144;
on arousing, 145; happiness in, 146; its demands
on the ego, 147; on becoming more tender, 148;
valued against stoicism, 149; and unfeeling
people, 259; the comedy of, 295.
— regarding, x. 51 ; the effects of, 265 ; the religions of
compassion and smug ease, 206.
— The Pitiful (Zarathustra's discourse), xi. 102-5; woe
unto all cooing ones who have not an elevation which
is above their pity, 105; Zarathustra, in poverty
and frozen with the ice of knowledge, mocks at
all pity, 213; in indulging in pity lay my greatest
danger, 226; the soothsayer reappears to Zara-
thustra, and would seduce him to his last sin,
293; heencounters the "ugliestman" whodeclaims
against, 322-6.
— its effect on a man of knowledge, xii. 100; the saint's
pity, 249; as regarded from the heights, 249.
— held in contempt by great minds, xiii. 8; the problem
of, 8-9.
— as more dangerous than any vice, xiv. 46; the view
of objective people, 96 ; Nietzsche's personal feel-
ing in the presence of, 204; on "his pity," 293.
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
Pity, an analysis of, xvi. 131; the praxis of Nihilism,
132; nothing more unhealthy, in the midst
of our unhealthy modernity, than Christian
pity. 133-
— why reproached, xvii. 18; Zarathustra quoted on, 18.
Plank, the small dividing, simile of, 54-5.
Plans, on making, vii 45.
Plastic artist, the, described and contrasted with the epic
poet and the lyrist, i. 46; the antithesis between,
and music, 121-8.
Plato, the typical Hellenic youth prostrate before the scene
of the dying Socrates, i. 106; alluded to, 101.
— the perfect state of, ii. 17; his conception of Hellenic
women, 21 ; the family and the perfect state, 22;
and Aristotle's attack on Horner, 56; the emula-
tion of, 59; as head of the many-sided philo-
sophers, 82; notes on, 168.
— his Phcedrus quoted, iii. 114.
— alluded to, iv. 151.
— and the teaching of children, v. 93; the basis of the
new education and the new state, 93; Niebuhr
and, 184; and the folly of fathers, 185; lost no
dignity whilst a court philosopher, 187; alluded
to, with Brutus, 200.
— his judgment that pity weakens the soul, vi. 68; his
view of tragedy and the tragic poets, 191 ; the
incarnate wish of, 240; a possible discovery of,
241; the old typical Socialist, 344; his ideal state,
345; quoted, 395; alluded to, 170.
— the period of his philosophy, vii. 136; his wide-drawn
dialogues, 183; referred to in an estimate of
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Beethoven, 268; on the effects of abolition of
property, 339; alluded to, 178, 302.
Plato, as all other philosophical architects, built in vain
against morality, ix. 3; and the association of
genius and sanity, 21; and the origin of action,
121; Thucydides and, 172; and actuality, 321;
on dialectic, 335 ; as the philosophical thinker, e. g.
the evil principle, 346 ; the psychological old age
of, 369; what the Greeks derived from, 374; and
the springs of happiness, 382; alluded to, 338,347.
— his aim—the founding of a new religion, x. 182 ; the
modesty which invented the word "philosopher,"
293; his ideomania, 305 ; his idealism, and its
origin, 337.
— his invention of " pure spirit" and " the good in itself,"
a dogmatist error, xii. 2; the effect of a struggle
against Platonism, 3; his aristocratic mode of
thought, and the imperatives of our naturalists,
21; his copy of Aristophanes found under the
pillow of his death-bed, 42; the place of Socra-
tism in the morality of, 11o; and the relative
authority of instinct and reason, 112.
— his contempt for pity, xiii. 8; not to be imagined as
a married man, 135; his aversion to art, 199;
alluded to, 177, 179, 215, 217.
— his arrogation to himself, as leader, of the right to lie,
xiv. 120; his imitation of the Aryan scheme of
community, 125; the taint of Jewish bigotry in,
165; reduced in Nietzsche's books to a carica-
ture, 299; how judged by Epicurus and others,
349; alluded to, 351, 359.
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
Plato, his estimate of the degree of reality, xv. 74; his in-
dictment of Athens under Pericles recalled, 203;
Tkeages quoted—an attitude of mind that must
be reinstated in our midst, 365; comforting
expedients of, 374; his estimate of man's power,
376.
— with Socrates, recognised as a decadent, xvi. 10; never
doubted his right to falsehood, 49; his proposi-
tion that all beauty lures to procreation, 78;
Nietzsche a sceptic regarding, 113; criticised,
114; truth, and the belief that a thing is true,
152; the " holy lie " not absent in, 214; alluded
to, 24.
— the use he made of Socrates, as cypher for himself,
the same as Nietzsche's use of Wagner and Scho-
penhauer in Thoughts out of Season, xvii. 81.
Pleasing, the desire of, vi. 379.
Pleasure, arises out of traditional custom and habit, vi. 95;
social instinct a cause of, 96; the struggle for,
105 ; in nonsense, 191; the world ruled by nature
through, 265.
— allied to good conscience. 'vii. 36; and the man of the
antique world, 101.
— the most gratifying of all, ix. 305.
— on the nature of pleasure and pain, xv. 166-73.
Plutarch, on the conception of labour held by the nobly
born youth of Greece, ii. 5.
— the works and heroes of, v. 57; the inspiring effect of
reading, 116.
— now little read, vi. 258.
— his heroes, vii. 199.
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of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
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PLUTARCH—POLITENESS
Plutarch, his gloomy picture of a superstitious man in
pagan times, ix. 79.
— the heroes of, and the Christian ideal, xiv. 180.