The presence of Plato and the spectrum of Schopenhauer in Nietzsche’s lectures, On the Future of Our Educational Institutions
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Educational Institutions, Bildung, Schopenhauer, cultureAbstract
We have set out here to highlight two references that underlie Nietzsche’s argument in his lecture On the Future of Our Educational Institutions. The philosopher shares with Plato and Schopenhauer a natural aristocracy of the mind, i.e. the idea that nature is stingy in its production of geniuses. In these conditions, it’s understandable that he should feel «frightened» by the «democratization» of the university he is witnessing. We show, however, that he plays Plato off against Schopenhauer, but does not follow the Greek philosopher all the way. First, Nietzsche stresses that far from believing that the university and culture should be at the service of the State, it is the State that should be at the service of Bildung, and it is what would emerge from the Platonic model. We claim that there is a kind of hesitation on Nietzsche’s part, who wonders whether the institution can still create Bildung or whether it is not outside that it should be sought and built, in which case we are closer to Schopenhauer.
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