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Single Idea 14883
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history
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Full Idea
For the past I desire above all a moral evaluation.
Gist of Idea
We should evaluate the past morally
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1872-74 [1873], 29 [096])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Unpublished of 'Unfashionable Obs' period (v 11)', ed/tr. Gray,Richard T. [Stanford 1995], p.238
A Reaction
There is a bit of a contradiction with Idea 14819, of only a few years later. He was always interested in a historical approach to morality, but I'm not sure if his ethics gives a decent basis for moral assessments of remote historical eras.
Related Idea
Idea 14819
Slavery cannot be judged by our standards, because the sense of justice was then less developed [Nietzsche]
The
20 ideas
with the same theme
[ideas about the study and teaching of history]:
1866
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It is heresy to teach that history repeats every 36,000 years
[Anon (Par)]
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19593
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Persons are shaped by a life history; splendid persons are shaped by world history
[Novalis]
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23270
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We should all agree that there is reason in history
[Hegel]
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21987
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History is the progress of the consciousness of freedom
[Hegel]
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5279
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Human history must always be studied in relation to industry and exchange
[Marx/Engels]
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5286
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Most historians are trapped in the illusions of their own epoch
[Marx/Engels]
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5301
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The history of all existing society is the history of class struggles
[Marx/Engels]
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20261
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History does not concern what really happened, but supposed events, which have all the influence
[Nietzsche]
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24095
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Our growth is too subtle to perceive, and long events are too slow for us to grasp
[Nietzsche]
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24128
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After history following God, or a people, or an idea, we now see it in terms of animals
[Nietzsche]
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14883
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We should evaluate the past morally
[Nietzsche]
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24217
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History is scientific when it relies on accurate documents
[Weil]
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23873
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Dividing history books into separate chapters is disastrous
[Weil]
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19605
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Despite endless suggestions, no one has found a goal for history
[Cioran]
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19637
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History is wonderfully devoid of meaning
[Cioran]
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15039
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History lacks 'meaning', but it can be analysed in terms of its struggles
[Foucault]
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7979
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The arrival of the news media brought history to an end
[Baudrillard]
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22819
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In the 18th century history came to be seen as progressive, rather than cyclical
[Hösle]
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20675
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The more you know about history, the harder it becomes to explain
[Harari]
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20676
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History teaches us that the present was not inevitable, and shows us the possibilities
[Harari]
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