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Ideas for 'Causal Connections', 'Thought and Talk' and 'Unpublished Notebooks 1872-74'

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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles
Education is contrary to human nature [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: Education runs contrary to the nature of a human being.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1872-74 [1873], 30 [06])
     A reaction: Tell me about it!
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history
We should evaluate the past morally [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: For the past I desire above all a moral evaluation.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1872-74 [1873], 29 [096])
     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.
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights
Protest against vivisection - living things should not become objects of scientific investigation [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: Protest against vivisection of living things, that is, those things that are not yet dead should be allowed to live and not immediately be treated as an object for scientific investigation.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1872-74 [1873], 29 [027])
     A reaction: Wow. How many other people had come up with this idea in 1873?