Human, All Too Human

Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, All Too Human by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was first published in 1878. It is a collection of aphorisms, ranging in length from a few words to a few pages. A second (Miscellaneous Maxims And Opinions) and a third part (The Wanderer And His Shadow) were published over the next couple of years and were first published as a three volume set. This was changed to a 2 volume edition in 1886. This edition includes all three parts. The first book is split into nine sections: Of First and Last Things (dealing with the subject of metaphysics); On the History of Moral Feelings (discusses and challenges the idea of Christian good and evil); From the Soul of Artists and Writers (where Nietzsche dismisses the concept of divine inspiration); Signs of Higher and Lower Culture (in which he criticises Charles Darwin and the survival of the fittest theory); Man in Society and Women and Child (discusses the nature of men, women, and children); Man Alone with Himself (a collection of mostly short aphorisms).

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• PART I
• PREFACE
• FIRST DIVISION -FIRST AND LAST THINGS
• SECOND DIVISION -THE HISTORY OF THE MORAL SENTIMENTS
• THIRD DIVISION -THE RELIGIOUS LIFE
• FOURTH DIVISION -CONCERNING THE SOUL OF ARTISTS AND AUTHORS
• FIFTH DIVISION -THE SIGNS OF HIGHER AND LOWER CULTURE
• SIXTH DIVISION -MAN IN SOCIETY
• SEVENTH DIVISION -WIFE AND CHILD
• EIGHTH DIVISION -A GLANCE AT THE STATE
• NINTH DIVISION -MAN ALONE BY HIMSELF
• AN EPODE - AMONG FRIENDS
• TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION
• PREFACE
• PART I.MISCELLANEOUS MAXIMS AND OPINIONS
• PART II.THE WANDERER AND HIS SHADOW