15: On the Use and Abuse of History for Life
The Nietzsche Podcast
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Hegel's Dialectical Movement of History
Hegel famously argued that the entire process of history was one long struggle towards freedom. Man continually engaging in this dialectical process of negating and then, paradoxically, through this process of negated, refining and lifting up his understanding. i believe there has been no dangerous change or turn in the german education of this century which has not become more dangerous through the enormous influence,. continuing to the present moment, of this philosophy. The hegalian truly, the belief that one is a late arrival of the ages is paralyzing and upsetting, terrible and destructive it must seem. However, if one day such a belief, by a bold inversion, deifies this late arrival as
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