Stausberg/Zarathustra, 1. First Encounters

In the course of this book some of the questions raised by Nietzsche will be met again: the relationship between good and evil, morality and metaphysics, truth and courage. But in the following we are not concerned with Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, but with the eastern (and still living) religion, Zarathustra and Zoroastrianism which lays claim to Zarathustra as its “founder,” “prophet” or “reformer.” We will also have to address the highly controversial issue of the “historical” Zarathustra.