In this discussion I provide a comprehensive introduction to the thought of Nietzsche by way of how he combines Modern science, history, and philology into a new understanding of philosophy — all with a view to how everything in Nietzsche issues from his concern for the future of classical education and its task of properly education the youth towards being capable of creating a culture of human greatness.
The following are discussed in detail:
— Nietzsche’s critique of contemporary culture and its relation to academia with particular emphasis on the influence of Jacob Burckardt’s own critique of academia on Nietzsche as well as how Burckhard’s approach to history relates in a fundamental way to Nietzsche’s own understanding of science more broadly.
— The definitive methodological aspect of science for “the scientific spirit” in Nietzsche along with its origin in Winckelmann, Goethe, and most especially Kant. And this point is definitive because at issue here is nothing less than the revolution all late Modern philosophy of 18th and 19th Century Germany which transformed the entirety of the universities into how we understand them today.
— The significance of Modern science in the thought of Nietzsche and particularly its methods of inquiry with reference to Descartes and the critically important way in which Nietzsche relates Descartes and Modern science broadly with Greek tragedy. I also include some little-known but remarkable insights by Martin Heidegger on Nietzsche’s critique of Modern science and how they form the foundation of Heidegger’s own understanding of technology as a question.
— Nietzsche’s inquiry into the concepts of good and evil, including master morality and slave morality
— The significance and history of “The death of God” as it arises in the thought of Nietzsch
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