# What Nietzsche Taught

Author: Wright, Willard Huntington, 1888-1939

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53622

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## Summary

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 profound knowledge of the causes of history. Also in this essay he made a plea for the individualistic interpretation of history, arguing that the events founded on the activities of majorities are useless to a true understanding of the fundamentals of racial development. Here again we encounter the foreshadowing of the philosophy of the superman. Nietzsche paid high tribute to Schopenhauer in his essay "Schopenhauer as...

## Chapters

- [Part IV, the narrative section, answers the query often raised: For](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-nietzsche-taught-53622/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Volume II of "Thoughts out of Season" contains "The Use and Abuse of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-nietzsche-taught-53622/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Book One, "The Will to Power in Science," I have already spoken. In](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-nietzsche-taught-53622/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Volume I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-nietzsche-taught-53622/chapters/5/index.md)
- [book I have chosen those passages which are more general in tone. The](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-nietzsche-taught-53622/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Volume II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-nietzsche-taught-53622/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part I is more lucid and can be more easily understood than the parts](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-nietzsche-taught-53622/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Volume II of "The Will to Power" is in two books. The first is called](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-nietzsche-taught-53622/chapters/7/index.md)