The Joyful Wisdom
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom / Die fröhliche Wissenschaft (1882)
Friedrich Nietzsche
A lantern lit at noon, and a crowd that will not stop laughing.
- Catch rate
- 16 / 255
- Base research
- 248
- Stat total
- 382
Base stats
Every stat is a checkable fact about the actual book, not a designer's mood. Bars are drawn against the highest value any book reaches.
Cited for this book
Section 125 — the parable of the madman — is the passage a Christian actually wants in hand. Nietzsche says the death of God is an earthquake that unmakes every bearing, and he says it AT the cheerful unbelievers who think the daylight will hold without the sun. Carried into a debate with a comfortable humanism, it is not an attack on faith. It is the question the humanist will not ask himself.
Moves learned
This book learns nothing new by levelling — everything it knows, it knew from the start or brought with it through development.
What answers it
The specific move or chapter of Scripture that cuts through this argument, and why.