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Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

Chapter 94: Chapter II. The Academic Chairs of Virtue.
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A prophetic teacher named Zarathustra delivers a series of poetic discourses and parables in four parts that explore the death of God, the will to power, the ideal of the overman, eternal recurrence, and the transvaluation of moral values. Mixing lyrical sermon, aphorism, and allegory, the text stages encounters, speeches, and symbolic episodes that critique Christian morality, celebrate self-overcoming, and insist on creative reevaluation of life’s aims. Recurring motifs such as solitude, the three metamorphoses, teaching and rejection, and paradoxical humor bind the fragments into a visionary call to invent new, life-affirming values.

Chapter II. The Academic Chairs of Virtue.

Almost the whole of this is quite comprehensible. It is a discourse against all those who confound virtue with tameness and smug ease, and who regard as virtuous only that which promotes security and tends to deepen sleep.