Human, All-Too-Human, Part 2
Numbered philosophical passages examine received ideas about knowledge, morality, religion, art and everyday conduct. Read a whole section and compare nearby passages before treating one sentence as advice. This is the same historical translation used for the archive’s Part 2 quotations.
Who it suits
Readers interested in questioning familiar assumptions and following an argument beyond a selected quotation.
Reading experience
Demanding; compressed arguments, older English and historical social assumptions need context. This is an Edsverb editorial guide, not a measured reading score.
The edition
- Edition
- New York: The MacMillan Company,1913; Paul V. Cohn translation
- Language
- English
- Translator
- Paul V. Cohn
- Publisher
- The MacMillan Company
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