Body, Earth, and Anti-Otherworldliness

From Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
The body is the great reason; soul is a word for something about the body. Zarathustra rejects otherworldly hopes in favor of the earth.
Prologue, Section 3

'Remain faithful to the earth.' Foundational anti-Platonic command.

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Part I, 'On the Despisers of the Body'

Body as great reason, self as ruler behind thoughts and feelings.

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Part I, 'On the Afterworldly'

Critique of otherworld-positing as sickness of the suffering body.

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