The Use And Abuse Of History

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

For this knead is to set down why, in the spirit of Goethes saying, we must sternly despise instruction without vitality, familiarity which enervates activity, and history as an expensive surplus of knowledge and a luxury, because we lack what is still to the highest degree essential to us and because what is spare is hostile to what is essential. To be sure, we look at history. But we need it in a manner diverse from the way in which the defective idler in the garden of knowledge uses it, no offspring how elegantly he may look down on our coarse and graceless need and distresses. Tha...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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