The Use And Abuse Of History

The Use And Abuse Of story The Use and Abuse of biography By Friedrich Nietzsche Forward "Incidentally, I despise everything which merely instructs me without ontogeny or immediately enlivening my activity." These are Goethes words. With them, as with a heartfelt expression of Ceterum censeo [I judge otherwise], our consideration of the worth and the obtuseness of history may begin.

For this work is to set down why, in the spirit of Goethes saying, we must seriously despise instruction without vitality, link which enervates activity, and history as an expensive surplus of knowledg e and a luxury, because we lack what is still most essential to us and because what is plain is hostile to what is essential. To be sure, we need history. But we need it in a manner different from the way in which the risky idler in the garden of knowledge uses it, no burden how elegantly he may look down on our coarse and graceless needs and distresses. Tha...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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