15: On the Use and Abuse of History for Life
The Nietzsche Podcast
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The Modern Scholar's Idea of Developing a Sense of Justice
Nica elaborates on this issue of the modern educated person's idea that they uniquely possess a more developed sense of justice. He says through historical education, and really through our whole approach to education more generally, subjectivity is drained. And from that indifference, we imagine ourselves to be objective judges of history. But nicha decrees quoe, only from the standpoint of the highest strength of the present day may you interpret the past.
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