The best version of themselves. Educating to individuality starting from Nietzsche's philosophy

Authors

  • Benedetta Zavatta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/EstudiosNIETen.vi21.13600

Keywords:

education, educator, overman, self-overcoming, self-perfectionism, individuality, democracy

Abstract

This essay illustrates the Nietzschean concept of education as it emerges in the Untimely Considerations, is developed in the works of the middle period (Daybreak, Human, All Too Human I and II, The Gay Science) and culminates in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It also discusses Nietzsche's critique of the educational institutions of his time and the alternative idea of ??educating by example. Finally, in this essay the possibility and usefulness of using some of Nietzsche's ideas for contemporary teaching - above all the ideal of self-overcoming and self-perfectioning - will be evaluated, and the different theories on this regard critically discussed.

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Published

2021-12-28

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How to Cite

The best version of themselves. Educating to individuality starting from Nietzsche’s philosophy. (2021). Estudios Nietzsche, 21, 127-150. https://doi.org/10.24310/EstudiosNIETen.vi21.13600