Nietzsche Flashcards by Peter New

Der Wille Zur Macht

The Will to Power

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Götzen-Dämmerung

Twilight of the Idols

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Gehernir-weichung

Brain-softening

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Lieblingsdichtung

Beloved poem

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ein Jünger der Warheit

“junior of truth”

devotee of truth

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Vorstellung

a mental image or idea produced by prior perception of an object, as in memory or imagination, rather than by actual perception.

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schauerlich

Gruesome, nightmarish

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Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen

Thoughts out of season

Betrachtungen references Descartes’ Meditations

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Weltanschauung

Philosophy of life

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Gestalt

Form, guise

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deutsches Wesen

German people/nature/shape/soul?

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Psychologische Beobachtungen

Psychological Observations

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Der Ursprung der moralischen Empfindung

The Origin of Moral Feeling

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Im Kampf um Gott

In Struggle at/around/surrounding God

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rasend

Insane, frenzied

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Herz (herzenfritz)

Heart, core

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Ironisierung

Ironization

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Zweideutigkeit

Ambiguity

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Versuch

Attempt, experiment

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wissenschaftlich

Scientific

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Geschichte

History; story, tale

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es ist der Gang Gottes in der Welt, dass der Staat ist

It is the way of God with this world that there should be the State.

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Wahlverwandtschaften

Elective Affinities, by Goethe, 1809

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Blitzschlag

lighting stroke/strike/smash

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Widerspruch

criticism

Redlichkeit

intellectual integrity (Kaufman), honesty (Google), plain dealing (reverso)

Versuchs-Tiere

test beasts

boshaft

sarcastic (Kaufman), mean/malicious/spiteful (German dict.)

Unfug

mischief

Völkerbund

League of Nations (Kaufman)

Naturwesen

nature-being

blöde Rotte

stupidly herd?

Erkenntnis

knowledge (Kaufman)

Einsamkeit

lonsomeness

Bewegungsgrund

movement fundamentally (Google)

Stellung

standpoint, magnitude, importance (Google)

Sonder

special

Du sollst der werden, der du bist

You shall become who you are.

gegeben | aufgegeben

given to us as data by nature Given or assigned to us as a task (Kaufman)

Bild ( das Bild des Menschen)

picture, image, presentation

verkannt

mistaken for another (Kaufman)

rücksicht | vorsichtig

Consideration, regard Warily (Google)

Zwecke

purposes ( Kaufman)

schadenfroh sein

to rejoice at another’s expense, gloat

Unbefangenheit

open mindedness (Kaufman)

Dankbarkeit und Rache

Gratitude and Revenge

Mitleid

suffering-with (Kaufman)

Ohnmacht

impotence (Kaufmann)

ehren Furcht Ehrfurcht

commemorate, memorialize fear reverence

waltete überwältigen

ruled to overwhelm

der Grad der Vernunft in der Kraft

the degree of reason in strength (Kaufmann)

Triebe

Drives

Errungenschaften

achievements

Selbst-Beherrschung und Mässigung ihr letztes Motiv

self-mastery and moderation as it’s ultimate motive (Kaufman)

Verstand

mind (Kaufman)

Kraftmengen

quanta of strength (Kaufman)

in Dienst nehmen

employ (Kaufmann) | Dienst means service/work

Vergeistigung

spiritualization (Kaufmann)

geistigsten

spiritual (Kaufmann)

aufheben

sublimare

Notlagen

emergencies (Google)

Polarität | Steigerung

Polarity | Enhancement

Anschauung

Intuition

Lust

“used by Nietzsche to connote that joy which exults in the face of suffering”

Lust-tiefer noch als Herzeleid

Joy-deeper yet than agony

Nationalbewussteins

national awareness (Google)

Zukunft

Future (Google)

Schlechtweggekommenen

Underprivileged (Kaufmann)

eine Herrenrasse

a master race (Google)

Zücht Züchtung anzüchtet

Breed, discipline Cultivation, breeding misfortune that breeds

nobility by birth by blood

nur Geburtsadel nur Geblütsadel

Selbstzucht

giving breeding to oneself (Kaufmann)

überwunden

to overcome

Nicht nur fort sollst du dich pflanzen sondern hinauf

you should propagate yourself not only onward but upward (Kaufmann)

Doch alle Lust will Ewigkeit- | Will tiefe, tiefe Ewigkeit.

All joy wants eternity- | wants deep, wants deep eternity. (Kaufmann)

Ziel Zweck

aim end

Liebe

charity (Kaufmann) - Nietzsche, Luther, and New Testament meaning

Der Bauernaufstand des Geistes Sklavenaufstand

the peasants’ revolt of the spirit (Kaufmann) slaves’ revolt

ungeistig

“un-mental”

Einwand

objection (Nietzsche equates it to conviction)

viel-gewandt, viel-verschlagen

polytropos (Odysseus)

Über

about ? Heinrich Heine über Ludwig Borne

Mitleiden Leiden

Pity Suffering (Kaufmann)

geistigsten

most spiritual (Kaufmann)

des Missratenen Entbehrenden Schlechtwegekommenen

misdeveloped Needy underprivileged (Kaufmann)

Bosheit

sarcasm (Kaufmann)

Matratzengruft

mattress tomb (Kaufmann)

lebensheiteren heiter

life-loving (Kaufmann) blithe, happy, cheery

Wiederkäuen

rumination

Vorlesungen Kunst

lectures art (Google)

Stachel Wollust

sting lust (Google)

Freigeisterei der Leidenschaft

passion of/for freethinking (?)

aufgehoben begriffen

abrogated, nullified, repealed comprehended

Hanswurst

buffoon (Kaufmann)