Excessive awareness of the past overwhelms and paralyzes; only those with great "plastic power" can bear a lot of history. Hegel's world-process is the target.
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An excess of history sickens us: awareness of the past, and of its great figures, makes us feel small. Only the strong, with abundant "plastic power," can bear much history.
Put simply Nietzsche: too much history makes us sick. Knowing the past and its great figures makes us feel small. Only the strong can bear a lot of history; he calls the strength they need "plastic power".
Hegel's philosophy, by crowning the belated present as the goal of all history, deifies history and sets it, as "the sole sovereign power," in place of art and religion.
Put simply Nietzsche on Hegel: by treating our own late age as the goal all history was heading for, Hegel turns history into a god. It becomes "the sole sovereign power", taking the place of art and religion.
Nietzsche blames Hegelian philosophy's huge, persisting influence for making every crisis of German culture in his century more dangerous; believing oneself a latecomer is "paralyzing and depressing."
Put simply Nietzsche: Hegel's huge, lasting influence made every crisis in German culture in his century more dangerous. Believing you have arrived late, at the tail end of history, is "paralyzing and depressing."
1 link between claims that both use the term. Each shows the earlier claim, then the later one that answers it. “Our inference” marks a link Shore does not state outright.
NietzscheAn excess of history sickens us: awareness of the past, and of its great figures, makes us feel small. Only the strong, with abundant "plastic power," can bear much history. L6 · 26:26
NietzscheHegel's philosophy, by crowning the belated present as the goal of all history, deifies history and sets it, as "the sole sovereign power," in place of art and religion. L6 · 29:53
The attack on Hegel is launched from the essay's broader argument that too much history sickens.
Throughlines that pass through one of these claims.
Terms that appear in the same claims.