HomeLUMINAvol. 20 no. 1 (2009)

Heidegger’s Analysis of Nietzsche’s Thoughts on Zarathustra

Eddie R. Babor

Discipline: Philosophy

 

Abstract:

Heidegger sketches his analysis of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra as follows:Zarathustra is the speaker, the advocate, the convalescent or the teacher who is never exhausted of preaching his doctrine on the Superman.He preaches on the Superman “…solely because he is the teacher of the Eternal Recurrence of the same.”