Who is Nietzsche's Zarathustra? A Note on the Iranian-Persian Background

Comparative and Continental Philosophy 1 (1):39-54 (2009)
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The article begins with Heidegger’s familiar question, Who is Nietzsche’s Zarathustra? Yet the piece takes far more seriously than Heidegger does the enigmatic choice that Nietzsche makes for his own principal spokesperson, his own mask. Why, for the philosopher who wills the revaluation of all values, the ancient Persian prophet? Why, for the anti moralist, the ancient founder of a moral worldview?

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Thus spoke Zarathustra.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - 1924 - New York,: Viking Press. Edited by Walter Arnold Kaufmann.
Vorträge und Aufsätze.MARTIN HEIDEGGER - 1954 - Philosophical Review 66 (3):417-420.

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