The Use And Abuse Of History

The Use And Abuse Of score The Use and Abuse of taradiddle By Friedrich Nietzsche Forward "Incidentally, I despise everything which merely instructs me without plus 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 awkwardness 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, association which enervates activity, and history as an expensive surp lus of knowledge and a luxury, because we lack what is still most essential to us and because what is tautologic 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 sorry idler in the garden of knowledge uses it, no bet 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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