This book praises Thucydides for writing with "severe, hard factuality" as opposed to Plato, whose theory of forms made him a "coward before reality;" it also argues that the Greeks demonstrate its comparison of great men to "explosives in which...force is stored up.
One section of this book lists the restrictions imposed by the Hindu caste system on the chandala and finds that "undying chandala hatred" has been disguised as love. This book praises Thucydides for writing with "severe, hard factuality" as opposed to Plato, whose theory of forms made him a "coward before reality;" it also argues that the Greeks demonstrate its comparison of great men to "explosives in which...force is stored up." The last section of this book features a discussion between a coal and a diamond and asserts that "all creators are hard." This book includes a collection of aphorisms called "Maxims and Arrows" and attacks the dialectical method in "The Problem of Socrates." For 10 points, name this polemical book against representatives of decadence in 19th-century Europe, a Friedrich Nietzsche book subtitled "How to Philosophize With a Hammer."
One section of this book lists the restrictions imposed by the Hindu caste system on the chandala and finds that "undying chandala hatred" has been disguised as love.
Twilight of the Idols: Or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer [or Götzen-Dämmerung (guut-zen-day-mer-ung)]