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Friedrich Nietzsche compared to Dostoyevsky?
Recently I've been reading some of Dostoyevsky's work (I'm on Brothers Karamozov now) and i was look for some authors as intelligent (if not more) as Dostoyevsky when i came across Friedrich Nietzsche. How is his work compared to Dostoyevsky's? I'm not looking for personal opinions on the authors' ideas, just the quality and the intelligence of their work.
Thanks in advance.
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- ?Lv 71 decade agoFavourite answer
Fritz was certainly intelligent, and his early emotional suffering, and later emotional suffering, tended to energize his search for Maslowian self-realization.
You might try "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" as a mature effort, in which Zarathustra is used by Nietzsche to bring enlightenment and realization to the young seeker. A convenient summary of his general intention is given in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow , without the struggling and with some scientific grounding. http://www.iep.utm.edu/nietzsch gives a general introduction.
You might enjoy Ruth Nanda Anshen's "Biography of an Idea," http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/anshen-ruth-na... , "Edith Stein: Essential Writings," and/or Mark Prophet's "The Path of the Higher Self."
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