English - Documentary narration of the life of Nietzsche.

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This is an excerpt from the marvelous book 'A Philosophy of Walking' by Frédéric Gros.

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English

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Middle Aged (35-54)

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North American (General)

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Ruptures. Nietzsche wrote are difficult because of the suffering caused by the removal of a bond. But in its place, we soon receive a boost. Nietzsche's life was to be made up of these detachments. These breaks, these isolations from the world society, traveling companions, colleagues, wives, friends, relations. But every deepening of his solitude signified a further extension of his freedom. No explanations to give no compromises to stand in his way. His vision clear and detached, Nietzsche was a remarkable walker tireless. He mentioned it all the time walking out of doors as it were the natural element of his, the invariable accompaniment to his writing. His life can be divided into four main acts. The first covering his formative years from his birth in 18 44 to his appointment as Professor of Philology at the University of Basel. His father was a pastor, a good and upright man who died young. When Frederick was only four years old, the young Nietzsche liked to imagine himself the last scion of a noble Polish lineage, the Nikes. After his father's death, he became the pampered darling of his mother, grandmother and sister. The object of intense solicitude highly intelligent. The boy received a classical education at the renowned and tough for secondary school there. He was subjected to an iron regime whose efficacy he was to recognize later in life based on the Greek equation you must know how to obey. In order to know how to command his loving and admiring mother hoped that he would use his brilliant intellect in God's service. Seeing him as a theologian, he was a vigorous boy with excellent health afflicted. Only by severe shortsightedness, doubt was very badly corrected.