{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 5/l03/p003","lang":"en","edition":"RSPI1960","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A personality like Nietzsche offers special points of interest for such observation. A morbid kernel in his personality gave him occasion to return to the physiological groundwork of his reflections. He alternately sounded all notes from poetic diction to the highest points of conceptional abstraction. He expressed himself very sharply over the connection of his ideas with his physical condition. “In the year 1879 I completed my professorship in Basle, during the summer lived like a shadow in St. Moritz, and the next winter, the most sunless of my whole life, I existed like a shadow in Naumburg. This was my minimum. I reached the lowest point of vitality in my thirty-sixth year; I still lived, but without seeing three steps ahead of me. *Der Wanderer und sein Schatten*, The Wanderer and his Shadow, came to existence during this time. Without doubt, I then had an understanding for shadows; ... The following winter, my first winter in Genoa, brought about that sweetening and spiritualization which is conditioned by an extreme poverty of blood and muscle; the *Morgenröte*, Dawn; the perfect clarity and joyousness, even exuberance of spirit, which the latter work reflects, is compatible with me, not only with the deepest physiological weakness, but also with an excess of painfulness. In the midst of my torment, which an uninterrupted three-day headache, together with the most wretched vomiting of slime brings with it, I possessed a dialectic clarity *par excellence*, and thought through things very cold-bloodedly, *for which, in a more healthy condition, I was not sufficiently a climber nor sufficiently crafty, nor sufficiently cold*. My readers know perhaps to what extent I consider dialectic as a symptom of decadence, for example, in the most famous instance: in the case of Socrates” (Compare M. G. Conrad, *Ketzerblut*, page 186, and Elizabeth Foerster-Nietzsche, *The Life of Friedrich Nietzsche*, Volume II, page 328). (See also Nietzsche's Works, German Edition, 1911, Vol. XV. p. 9-12)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Part III. Friedrich Nietzsche's Personality and Psychotherapy","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":321,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/5/l03/p003","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["RSPI1960"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/5/l05/p003","locus":"GA 5/l05/p003","anchor_mapped":true,"anchor_method":"curated","anchor_confidence":"high"},{"lang":"en","edition":"RSPI1960","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/5/l03/p003","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l05","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 5/l05/p002","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/5/l05/p002"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":278,"en_words":321,"ratio":1.15,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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In meinem sechsunddreißigsten Lebensjahre kam ich auf den niedrigsten Punkt meiner Vitalität — ich lebte noch, doch ohne drei Schritte weit vor mich zu sehen. 9Der Wanderer und sein Schatten: entstand währenddem. Unzweifelhaft, ich verstand mich damals auf Schatten ... Im Winter darauf, meinem ersten Genueser Winter, brachte jene Versüßung und Vergeistigung, die mit einer extremen Armut an Blut und Muskel beinahe bedingt ist, die 9Morgenröte: hervor. Die vollkommene Helle und Heiterkeit, selbst Exuberanz des Geistes, welche das genannte Werk widerspiegelt, verträgt sich bei mir nicht nur mit der tiefsten physiologischen Schwäche, sondern sogar mit einem Exzess von Schmerzgefühl.» «Mitten in Martern, die ein ununterbrochner dreitägiger Gehirn-Schmerz samt mühseligem Schleim-Erbrechen mit sich bringt, — besaß ich eine Dialektiker-Klarheit par excellence und dachte Dinge sehr kaltblütig durch, *zu denen ich in gesünderen Verhältnissen nicht Kletterer, nicht raffiniert, nicht kalt genug bin*. Meine Leser wissen vielleicht, inwiefern ich Dialektik als Dekadenz-Symptome betrachte, zum Beispiel im allerberühmtesten Fall: im Fall des Sokrates.» — (Vgl. M. G. Conrad: «Ketzerblut», S. 186, und Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche: «Das Leben Friedrich Nietzsches» II, I, S.328.)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":278,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/5/l05/p002"}],"english":["GA 5/l03/p003"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":278,"en_words":321,"ratio":1.15,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.65,"band":"short","note":"This witness is materially shorter than the original (below 75%). Passages may be omitted without any visible gap. A phrase absent here is NOT evidence it is absent from the original; search the original language before concluding.","word_count":4530,"original_word_count":6942,"may_be_abridged":true},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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