Philosophy 1300E Lecture 18: Friedrich Nietzsche
1 Oct 2018
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The problem: a question about time: human beings and the animals. (read pp. The present as between the past and the future. Being-in-time: compare the "three metamorphoses" (the camel, the lion and the child, from thus spoke. In order to create we need to detach ourselves from everything we carry, good and bad things, if we are unable to love them yet. Attitudes to the past: the unhistorical life (of an animal) - the unhistorical element in our life, the historical element in our life, the suprahistorical vantage-point. The plastic power: borrowed term (used by burckhardt, the historian). 62f: plasticity not shapes and actively reorganizes, but also the ability to shape and to actively shape. Three species of history - three aspects of man: monumental history - acting and striving, antiquarian history - preserving and reserving, critical history - suffering and seeking deliverance.
