Single Idea 24128

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history]

Full Idea

Earlier we sought God's intentions in history: then an unconscious purposefulness, in a people or an idea. Only recently are we considering the history of animals, and the first insight is that no plan has so far existed. Coincidences have been dominant.

Gist of Idea

After history following God, or a people, or an idea, we now see it in terms of animals

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1884-85 [1884], 25[127])

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1884-85 (v 15)', ed/tr. Loeb,P.S./Tinsley,D.F. [Stanford 2022], p.38


A Reaction

Not a Whig historian then! Presumably Hegel is his main target. In 2024 there is a definite feeling that western democracies are regressing.