The Dawn of Day

When Nietzsche named his book "The Dawn of the Day," he was far from giving it a bizarre title to attract the attention of a large part of the public who judged books by their names and not by their content. The dawn of the day, metaphorically speaking, represents the dawn of Nietzsche's own philosophy. By this time, if not in his actual thoughts, but in his worldview, he had been greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Wagner, and perhaps Comte. After all, man belongs to the transition period. After leaving Bayreuth, Nietzsche tries to stand on his own two feet and regain his spiritual freedom in both parts of this work; he feels the way to his own philosophy. The dawn of the day, written in 1881 under the refreshing influence of the Genoese spring, is the dawn of this new Nietzsche. "With this book I am launching my campaign against morality," he later wrote in his autobiography, Ecce Homo. Just as in the books written in its premiere – "Joyful Wisdom", "Zarathustra", "Beyond Good and Evil" and "The Genealogy of Morality" – in this work too, we cannot be impressed by Nietzsche's profound psychological insight, insight that shows that he was a powerful judge of people and things who were not equal in the nineteenth century, or perhaps in another century.

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