Twilight of the Idols: How to Philosophize with a Hammer

Twilight of the Idols Friedrich Nietzsche 1895] d104 prepared from the original German and the translations by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer (German: G tzen-D mmerung, oder, Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophirt) is a book by Friedrich Nietzsche, written in 1888, and published in 1889. CONTENTS * Preface * Maxims and Arrows * The Problem of Socrates * 'Reason' in Philosophy * How the 'True World' Finally Became a Fable * Morality as Anti-Nature * The Four * Great Errors * The 'Improvers' of Mankind * What the Germans Lack * Skirmishes of an Untimely Man * What I Owe to the Ancients * The Hammer SpeaksMaintaining cheerfulness in the midst of a gloomy task, fraught with immeasurable responsibility, is no small feat; and yet what is needed more than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds if prankishness has no part in it. Excess strength alone is the proof of strength. A revaluation of all values: this question mark, so black, so