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Hermit wrote:

scherado wrote:No one, nobody should do anything other than read the actual works; NOT second-hand analysis.

What's wrong with second-hand analysis? ...

If you don't read the work itself and get second-hand analysis, then it can't speak to you.

I never violated this rule except for some content found in Allan Bloom's The Closing Of The American Mind, which is the book -- breaking the camel's back -- that made me go read the Big N in earnest. Also, Francis Fukuyama's book, The End of History and the Last Man, contributed to me committing to read Nietzsche.

I did get some tangible benefit and some not tangible. I do recommend his writing.