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Misconceptions About the Prophet and His Doctrine. Most people do not know the name “Zarathustra” unless it is in relation to the title Thus Spoke Zarathustra. This is the title of both an 1896 tone poem composed by Richard Strass and, more famously, a book published in 1892 by Friedrich Nietzsche.  However, as Nietzsche made clear in Ecce Homo (which was written in 1888 and published in 1908), he used the character Zarathustra to express Nietzsche’s views rather than those…..

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