15: On the Use and Abuse of History for Life
The Nietzsche Podcast
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The Unhistorical
To be a historical being is to understand oneself as surrounded at all times by the past and te future, that one exists in the present. And therefore this comes with the knowledge that our actions in the present are themselves the cause of the future. If this is all em a bit difficult to understand, am you know, that's only natural. We're allhistorical beings. And thus we have, we have no unhistorical state to compare our experience to, right? So that's why nita begins the essay more or less by holding up the example of the unhistorical, the counter example of theunhistorical. Because even though we don't have the experience of being
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