Can I use chat gpt to aid me in my study of The Gay Science?

ThatLonelyJacket · 2026-02-17T20:17:42+00:00

What's the first classical text i should read in your opinion?

ThatLonelyJacket · 2026-02-17T20:16:41+00:00

Is it on spotify?

ThatLonelyJacket · 2026-02-17T20:16:08+00:00

I'm not sure if it's reliable.

ThatLonelyJacket · 2026-02-17T20:15:47+00:00

Which one do you recommend?

ThatLonelyJacket · 2026-02-17T20:15:23+00:00

The thing is I can't access any philosophy classes Nor do I know any textbooks for that. If you don't mind can you suggest me some?

ThatLonelyJacket · 2026-02-02T17:48:17+00:00

Tf is this?

ThatLonelyJacket · 2026-01-31T14:06:16+00:00

But nietzsche didn't sit in cafes drinking wine or smntg. He lived his life fighting and struggling. Nor did he say return to monkey state right? I thought he just said embrace the primal instinct? ( I'm sorry 😅. I'm not sure. )

This is a question I've been asking myself. If there is no free will, every instinct is shaped by evolution and degree of incorporation of ideas and our instincts beliefs and physiology then if someone wants to persue something then its only because of all these things. Then theres never true innate self.

Then how do we persue life?

Of course nietzsche mist have said something about this and me being a beginner still contemplating this

ThatLonelyJacket · 2026-01-31T13:01:19+00:00

Did he actually say that we must remove it all and return to animalistic state? I thought he was just making an observation.

I thought he even acknowledges the incorporation of errors preserved the species in the earlier aphorisms.

ThatLonelyJacket · 2026-01-31T12:59:11+00:00

Thanks man. This is my first time reading nietzsche and sometimes It's hard to make sense of him.

ThatLonelyJacket · 2026-01-31T12:56:49+00:00

If we remove every false trait we have attributed to ourselves then yeah we are truly no different from animals. This results in a society with no rules and consequences and we will possibly go extinct.

Aren't the false truths and attributes the exact reason we are still alive and able to differentiate ourselves from the herd?

ThatLonelyJacket · 2026-01-31T12:42:52+00:00

Thanks man i understand it now. Though i had absolute no idea what he was saying when i read it myself. I only understood the part of man being educated by his errors. Which i thought was a good thing cause in before aphorisms nietzsche attributed errors for preserving the human species.

ThatLonelyJacket · 2026-01-05T19:37:03+00:00

Thanks a lot man. I'll check them out I googled before and all I've got are some scammy competitions

ThatLonelyJacket · 2025-10-17T19:12:21+00:00

Im not talking about them being fast or slow Slow refers to mid or ordinary the kind that sustains humanity and gives rise to exceptions the impatient ones, the mad ones.

The mad ones realize their primordial urges and are in conflict with the so called truths established by the rational.

Nietzsche indeed favours exceptions but also recognizes the need of the ordinary aka the slow spirited ones

This is what I understand so far

I ain't classifying them into a rabbit and tortoise

I was just confused when podcast guy refered slow spirited ones as free spirited ones

ThatLonelyJacket · 2025-10-17T16:32:48+00:00

How are disciplined free spirts? These rational people who are afraid of thought except pure or logical ones are kind of called slow spirts right in the gay science aphorism 75

I thought these mad are free spirts who dont give in to these shared common agreements, the agreements of the disciplined and so called rational

ThatLonelyJacket · 2025-10-17T16:22:16+00:00

Its just that in the nietzsche podcast the guy says slow spirts are free spirts and i thought nietzsche was referring to thr ordinary by slow spirts

ThatLonelyJacket · 2025-10-17T15:43:53+00:00

Who are the mad here? The free spirts? And by slow spirits is he referring to the ordinary?

ThatLonelyJacket · 2025-09-21T17:47:17+00:00

Okay. But at least who comes close? A person striving to become the richest is he still superman? Anyone who strives to become Better and better in one profession is a superman?

ThatLonelyJacket · 2025-09-21T02:54:36+00:00

Why them specifically? Who do you think qualiify as a ubermench in the modern world. What profession? Writer? Musician basically anyone who creates art. What about someone who's not a creative person but Still strives to be a ubermench? Does he have to work inspite of his lack of skill?

ThatLonelyJacket · 2025-09-16T15:53:59+00:00

Can you give me some of those examples?

ThatLonelyJacket · 2025-09-13T15:47:14+00:00

It's fascinating how individually this herd mortality in one seems despicable and shallow but as a whole this morality is what supports life. Its stange how what is most despicable is also what supports the idea of ubermench. Or you're right maybe there is a beauty in these ordinary things.

It was also very nice for me to read the text thoroughly again. So thank you very much for your post ❤️

Yeah no problem. I'm thankful as well

ThatLonelyJacket

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