POL 3102 Lecture Notes - Friedrich Nietzsche, Metanarrative
11 Apr 2014
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Doing history this way saps the individual of the desire to do anything to change the world. Un-historical attitude: forget the past, think in the present. Super historical: shift from what changes to focus on what is eternal. Nietzsche against history done poorly, not against history in its entirety. Ultimately what matters is having full rich experiences: we should look at our lives like it"s some sort of performance art. Some is more or less profound- some is just decoration: n seeks to empower and develop our creative forces. How does one take the right attitude to history and ourselves: thinks our culture gives us sham needs- we"re taught to seek things that do nothing for us. Nietzsche: strips away social illusion: 1, the idea that there is a pre-existing soul and 2, we have some kind of will (free will, 3, that we have have transparency of intellect.
