POL 3102 Lecture 10: POL3102 – Lecture #10
10 Feb 2017
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Nietzsche won"t accept historicism, because he argues that there can be no end to. This is where he breaks from hegel history. Hegelianism therefore establishes the sovereignty of history over other spiritual powers such as art, religion, etc. Nietzsche argues that the process is neither ended nor ending. He goes on to argue that the completion of history is not merely impossible, but is also undesirable. However, nietzsche does not revert to a re-hegelian view of history he recognizes the importance of history while critiquing hegel"s theory about the end of history. Nietzsche begins his analysis of history by considering animals. This is because it would lead to the degeneration of human kind. Animals cannot remember and therefore live entirely in the present; they have no historicity. Humans, however, have a memory, so while our happiness. Nietsche: the greatest horizon is one that is consciously created. Nietzsche: history as the science of universal becoming is true but deadly.
