Category: Biographies

What Nietzsche Taught

History" and "Schopenhauer as Educator," both written in 1874. In the first of these essays Nietzsche attacked the study of history which was then the foremost educational fad in Germany. He denied it a place in the curriculum of culture unless it had for its foundation a prof...

Chapters

1. Volume II of "Thoughts out of Season" contains "The Use and Abuse of

History" and "Schopenhauer as Educator," both written in 1874. In the first of these essays Nietzsche attacked the study of history which was then the foremost educational fad i...

2. book I have chosen those passages which are more general in tone. The

connection between the various aphorisms is here even slighter than is Nietzsche's wont, and for that reason no attempt has been made to present a continuous perception of the w...

3. Part I is more lucid and can be more easily understood than the parts

which follow. In it Nietzsche designates the classes of humanity and differentiates between them. His three famous metamorphoses of the spirit--symbolised by the camel, the lion...

4. Part IV, the narrative section, answers the query often raised: For

whom is Nietzsche's philosophy intended? It does away once and for all with the assumption of certain critics that his writings were for all classes. In fact, this assumption, c...

5. Volume I

All the evidences of what was to be Nietzsche's final and complete philosophical work in four volumes, are contained in two volumes of desultory and often highly condensed notes...

6. Volume II

The second volume of "The Will to Power," even in its present fragmentary form, is the most important of Nietzsche's works. It draws together under one cover many of the leading...

7. Volume II of "The Will to Power" is in two books. The first is called

"The Principles of a New Valuation"; the second, "Discipline and Breeding." The first book is divided into four sections--"The Will to Power in Science," "The Will to Power in N...

8. Book One, "The Will to Power in Science," I have already spoken. In

this section Nietzsche shows how arbitrary a thing science is, and how closely related are its conclusions to the instinct of the scientists, namely: the instinct of the will to...