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The Dawn of Day
Title page
AuthorFriedrich Nietzsche
Original titleMorgenröthe 
LanguageGerman
Publication date1881
Publication placeGermany
Preceded byHuman, All Too Human (1878) 
Followed byIdylls from Messina (1882) 
Morgenröte in Modern German.

The Dawn of Day or Dawn or Daybreak (German: Morgenröte – Gedanken über die moralischen Vorurteile; historical orthography: Morgenröthe – Gedanken über die moralischen Vorurtheile; English: The Dawn of Day/ Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality) is an 1881 book by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. According to the Nietzsche scholar Keith Ansell-Pearson, it is the least studied of all of Nietzsche's works. This relative obscurity is mostly due to the greater attention paid to his subsequent writings.

In his last original book Ecce Homo, Nietzsche writes that Daybreak was the "book my campaign against morality begins".

Themes

Nietzsche de-emphasizes the role of hedonism as a motivator and accentuates the role of a "feeling of power." His relativism, both moral and cultural, and his critique of Christianity also reach greater maturity. In Daybreak Nietzsche devotes a lengthy passage to his criticism of Christian biblical exegesis, including its arbitrary interpretation of objects and images in the Old Testament as prefigurations of Christ's crucifixion.

The polemical, antagonistic and informal style of this aphoristic book, when compared to Nietzsche's later treatments of morality, seems to invite a particular experience. In this text Nietzsche is not concerned with persuading his readers to accept any specific point of view, yet there are prefigurations of many of the ideas more fully developed in his later books. For example, the materialism espoused in this book might seem reducible to a naïve scientific objectivism that reduces all phenomena to their natural, mechanical causes, but that is not Nietzsche's strongest perspective, which is perhaps best expressed in The Gay Science.

Nietzsche in (93) acknowledges that a universe does not come from God or a creator but physics and science. The aphorism (93) begins from the question in the gospel of John (18:38). This interpretation and development of his thought were to prove errors in dogmatic teaching of Christianity that power and not divinity is the psychology of belief.

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References

  1. "Nietzsche, the Middle Period". 3ammagazine.com. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  2. ^ Nietzsche, Friedrich; Hollingdale, Reginald J.; Nietzsche, Friedrich (2003). Clark, Maudemarie (ed.). Daybreak: thoughts on the prejudices of morality. Cambridge Texts in the History of philosophy (6. print ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-59963-4.

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