POLS 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Noblesse Oblige, Hinder, Friedrich Nietzsche
Document Summary
Crisis of historical culture excess of history (sickness) Believing as i do that we are all sufering from a malignant historical fever and should at least recognise the fact . He states that: history is required for life but is also itself a danger to modernity. Proper usage of history, historical educaion is wholesome and promising for the future only in the service of a powerful new life- giving inluence . Its funcion is to serve life, history is not an end in itself it is a tool for modernity. History is necessary to man in 3 ways: in relaion to his acion and struggle, his conservaism and reverence, his sufering and his desire for deliverance. He claims that history is a necessity for life, also emphasizes the importance of the capacity to live unhistorical = to forget. Ex: animal, a beast difers from man in it"s nature, forgeful, lives in the present.