Abstract
By the time Nietzsche published Human he was near the end of his rope. His symptoms were preventing him from sustaining his schedule at the University of Basel. His sister Elisabeth was no longer willing or able to keep house for him as she had since 1875. Nor had the leave during which he had written Human helped him recuperate significantly. In 1879, Nietzsche resigned from academic life, retiring on a small pension. For the next ten years, he lived a nomadic existence, moving with the seasons through Italy, Switzerland, and southern France, in search of climates most conducive to his health.1 Wherever he went he walked and wrote and walked. He walked to open spaces of health within himself—spaces in which he welcomed ideas and values that would guide him in realizing the great health he sought for himself: an ability to overcome and revalue the lifedenying aspects of Christian values in himself, and love life. All of it. It is a wonder he did not simply give up.KeywordsPhysical ConsciousnessLove LifeFree SpiritGreat ReasonEternal Recurrence
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