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Nietzsche on the Use and Abuse of History for Life

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"‘Moreover I hate everything that merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.’ These words of Goethe, like a sincere ceterum censeo may well stand at the head of my thoughts on the worth and the worthlessness of history." So begins Nietzsche’s “Untimely Meditations” on the value of reading history. Please register to join St. John’s College tutors Roxana Zirakzadeh and Andy Gilman for this live conversation HERE.