Nietzsche on Aryans, Jews, and the Genealogy of Morals

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[–]IslamofascistDeath to America, Death to Israel, Death to The Ukraine 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Regardless of what one thinks of Nietzsche, he most definitely was NOT a historian. He had some knowledge of Classical Antiquity due to his background as a philologist, but was never a historical researcher (though he did work on the philosophy of history, this is a very different field from history proper). I think for Nietzsche, history existed mostly as allegory, not as a sequence of ascertainable facts.

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Yes, I suppose I may have taken a bit of liberty with the term 'historian'. That comment was a bit clumsy, my aim was just to say his idea isn't without linguistic and historical justification, though should not be interpreted as 'ascertainable fact', as you say to attempt a rephrasing. I was attempting to get this idea across without repeating all the justifications he used, and came up a bit short as you are right to point out.