Fr. Nietzsche - Out of time considerations. Second piece: On the benefits and disadvantages of history for life.

From the criticism of the frozen historicism of his time, Nietzsche developed the idea of ​​a lively balance between retrospect, present and foresight. From the distinction between a “monumental”, “antiquarian” and “critical” history, he develops the idea of ​​a balance that can do justice to life, ie a living art, culture and education. He directs his particular criticism against the presumption of Hegel's philosophy of history. Against the gross brutality of an all-sanctioning machine of the litigating world spirit, he - like his contemporary Kierkegaard - absolutely poses the individual. With Nietzsche, however, the individual is also a dividual. With the reference to the earliest Hellenic sources, such as the “Know Yourself” of the Delphic sanctuary, he confirms the inevitable intersection of the historical balance: the unconditionally individual and at the same time infinite participant, in responsibility and abundance of life, in rational education and ›musical‹ feeling.