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tldr (tim reilly)
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Nietzsche on "the power of forgetting" – which is the same as the power to be "unhistorical" toward the past. (excerpt is from "On the Advantages of Disadvantages of History for Life" – the early little essay that I consider to be perhaps the most important indicator of what Nietzsche is up to)
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Cameron Armstrong
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It’s really interesting bc in the Gay Science he also advocates for man to think of himself as the continuation and accumulation of all things historical as well as the perpetuator of all things future I guess we contain multitudes 🤷♂️
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tldr (tim reilly)
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Maybe he forgot 🤣 But seriously, he had an interesting attitude toward self-contradiction. Makes me want to read GS again In the above, he does ends up re-incorporating history. But I think he wants to first smash the over-historicism of his contemporary German Academy’s approach to philosophy (heavily Hegelian)
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