>>25403204
Nietzsche highly admired Arthur Schopenhauer before he developed his own ideas. Nietzsche's philosophy is essentially the mirror opposite of Schopenhauer's philosophy. Schopenhauer is very useful to understanding Nietzsche, since Nietzsche built off of his ideas and used to venerate him.

Nietzsche liked Baruch Spinoza as well, even going so far as to call him his "precursor," but in true Nietzschean fashion also hated him.

Nietzsche loved Greek tragedy, so reading Greek tragedy might help. He hated Plato and Aristotle. He admired Heraclitus.

My own personal recommendation is to read Soren Kierkegaard alongside reading Nietzsche, because he is quite literally the Christian Nietzsche, and pre-dated Nietzsche.

May Jesus bless you and give you wisdom!

>>25403219
Second the Kierkegaard; Nietszche combination. Like tea and biscuits tally ho. Just read Beyond Good and Evil, it'll plainly tell you it's lineage. Nietszche mentions how two philosophers "wronged each other as only brothers could wrong each other", keep that in mind.

>>25403204
Nothing. Just read him and then read what he's critiquing

>>25403204
>What do I actually need to read before diving into Nietzsche?
Just some university textbook digest on the history of philosophy, so that you would have a basic grasp on who the fuck Plato, Kant and others are.

In terms of epistemology, Nietzsche was so ahead of his time so as to be the early forerunner of postpositivism and eliminativism, before those even became a thing.
So, some philosophy of mind literature (Daniel Dennett, Paul Churchland) would fit in nicely as well.

"Consciousness is really just a net connecting one person with another - only in this capacity did it have to develop; the solitary and predatory person would not have needed it. That our actions, thoughts, feelings, and movements - at least some of them - even enter into consciousness is the result of a terrible 'must' which has ruled over man for a long time: <...> For, once again: man, like every living creature, is constantly thinking but does not know it; the thinking which becomes *conscious* is only the smallest part of it, let's say the shallowest, worst part - for only that conscious thinking *takes place in words, that is, in communication symbols*; and this fact discloses the origin of consciousness. In short, the development of language and the development of consciousness (*not* of reason but strictly of the way in which we become conscious of reason) go hand in hand. <...> My idea is clearly that consciousness actually belongs not to man's existence as an individual but rather to the communityand herd-aspects of his nature; that accordingly, it is finely developed only in relation to its usefulness to community or herd; and that consequently each of us, even with the best will in the world to *understand* ourselves as individually as possible, 'to know ourselves', will always bring to consciousness precisely that in ourselves which is 'nonindividual', that which is 'average'; that due to the nature of consciousness - to the 'genius of the species' governing it - our thoughts themselves are continually as it were *outvoted* and translated back into the herd perspective."

>>25403219
How does one hate Plato AND Aristotle?

>>25403204
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>>25403204
>I'm extremely intelligent
no you aren't

You need to live and breathe Christianity and Platonism to the point that it becomes pathological. You might have already absorved that just by living in modern western culture, if you haven't, you probably won't care about what he has to say, and just reading Plato's Republic once won't change that.

>>25403451
Getting filtered, especially the latter.
Many, many such cases.

>>25403451
He doesn't hate them, trying to outline nietzche by things he likes/dislikes is incredibly simple minded and childish lol

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