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Ep. 300: Nietzsche on Relating to History (Part One)

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Do We Use Them to Do Something New?

Aristotle says man envies animals for being able to live in the moment. We react, we live with the pressure of the past kind of bearing down on us,. This is someting that makes us hypocrites, because we try to disown it. It would be foolish not to read this intro to section one. Consider the cattle grazing. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or to day. And so from morn till night, and from day to day, fettered to the moment in its pleasure or displeasure - thus neither melancholy nor bored. Yet he cannot have it because he refuses to be like an animal. So this is a long running theme in nich

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