{"id":85,"date":"2007-10-08T10:19:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T08:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2024-07-14T14:51:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T13:51:13","slug":"way-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"History 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

(DE<\/a>) (NL<\/a>)<\/p>\n

“[Hegel] … planted in the generations leavened by him that admiration for the ‘Power<\/a> of History’, which transforms practically every moment into a naked admiration of success and leads to idolatrous worship of the factual<\/a>. For this service people nowadays commonly repeat the very mythological and, in addition, the truly German expression ‘to carry the bill of facts<\/a>‘<\/p>\n

But the person who has first learned<\/a> to stoop down and to bow his head before the ‘Power of History’, finally nods his agreement mechanically, in the Chinese fashion, to that power, whether it is a government<\/a> or public opinion<\/a> or a numerical majority<\/a>, and moves his limbs precisely to the beat of strings plucked by some ‘power’ or other. …<\/p>\n

Create in yourselves a picture to which the future is to correspond, and forget the myth that you are epigones. You have enough to plan and to invent when you imagine that future life<\/a> for yourselves. But in considering history do not ask that she show you the ‘How?’ and the ‘With what?'”<\/p>\n

aus: Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Use and Abuse of History for Life (1874). translated by Ian C. Johnston 1998, Volltext im Internet<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(DE) (NL) “[Hegel] … planted in the generations leavened by him that admiration for the ‘Power of History’, which transforms practically every moment into a naked admiration of success and leads to idolatrous worship of the factual. For this service people nowadays commonly repeat the very mythological and, in addition, the truly German expression ‘to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5198,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/5198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}