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History: History is the study of the past, especially the people, events, and trends that have shaped our world. This is about the part of the past that was determined and experienced by consciousness. See also Historiography, Culture.
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Friedrich Nietzsche on History - Dictionary of Arguments

Höffe I 375
History/Nietzsche/Höffe: Nietzsche(1) gives a basic phenomenon of the political, the striving for power, a broader, yet deeper meaning. For he subjects the entire human culture, here exemplarily the consideration of history, to the principle of the enhancement of life: As the will to power, life must constantly overcome itself and productively grow beyond itself. With the principle: "Only as far as history serves life do we want to serve it" (Preface), Nietzsche introduces three kinds of a life-serving history: the "monumental history" (2. Chap.), which provides "models, teachers, comforters" to the "active and striving"; the "antiquarian history" (3. Chap.), which allows "the preserving and revering" to look back "with faithfulness and love" to his/her origins; finally, the "critical history", which gives "the suffering and the liberation of the needy" the strength to condemn a past after an embarrassing test at the end (ibid.). In terms of the tacit motive of the will to power
Höffe I 376
Nietzsche warns against oversaturation with history, since it is harmful to life in five ways:
(1) Through the contrast between inside and outside it weakens the personality;
(2) it nourishes the illusion, the most rare virtue, justice, possesses the present to a greater degree than any other time;
(3) it disturbs "the instincts of the people, whereby both the individual and the whole are "prevented from maturing";
(4) the harmful "belief to be late and epigone" is planted; and
(5) implicitly NietzscheVsHegel: an epoch gets into the glorification of the present as the completion of world history.
Höffe: Nietzsche does not deal with Kant's idea of history as a legal progress open to the future.
>History/Hegel
, >Philosophy of history/Kant.

1. F. Nietzsche, Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen II: «Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der
Historie für das Leben» (1874)
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Ries II 36
History/NietzscheVs: VsHistorism
VsTeleology, VsTeleological Meaning
>Historism, >Teleology, >Historiography, >Philosophy of history.
Ries II 38
History/NietzscheVsStrauß, Friedrich David: Strauss' "Life of Jesus" (1835) had once inspired the young Nietzsche. The first piece of outmoded consideration is directed against him.
Ries II 39/40
History/outmoded considerations/Nietzsche:
The second piece: "On the benefit and disadvantage of history for life": the immediacy of life is opposed "right inside" historical knowledge. That "immediacy" is guaranteed in oblivion.
History/outmoded considerations/NietzscheVsHistorism: against the unreflected ideological implication of a philosophy whose scientific-theoretical postulate of a separation of theory and practice obscures adaptation to the actual.
Ries II 42
It is impossible to prove a necessity of the event from history as the mere sequence of its events. The scientific claim to the recognition of a path must be abandoned. Also the thought of progress!
Ries II 43
Historical construction tries to eliminate the senselessness of death.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Nie I
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe Berlin 2009

Nie V
F. Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil 2014

Höffe I
Otfried Höffe
Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016

Ries II
Wiebrecht Ries
Nietzsche zur Einführung Hamburg 1990


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