Walking the Tightrope

In the first volume of Human, All Too Human (HH) Nietzsche establishes a foundation for questioning traditional moral values, for the place and importance of art, and for self-mastery in a godless world. The work idealistically advocates the necessity of certain “cultivated” human beings to bring about an as yet rather nebulously defined “higher culture.” Separate sections on “Man in Society”, “Woman and Child”, “A Glance at the State”, and, lastly, “Man Alone with Himself” broaden the range of the work into Fritz’s often times rather naïve understandings of human fellowship and intimate experience. In that regard, HH reflects Fritz’s limitations as a person. His passages on women, friendships, and family life, for example, reveal how truly unsophisticated his experiences were compared to his expert fascination with the workings of humanity as a whole and as an individual within that whole. There is a lot in the work I personally think is poorly developed and just a blatant opinion, i...