Nietzsches Staat: Reading "Ueber die Zukunft unserer Bildungsanstalten" as a reading of Plato's "Republic"
by Taylor, William O., M.A., THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, 2007, 111 pages; 1442331

Abstract:

Nietzsche's five lectures titled Ueber die Zukunft unserer Bildungsanstalten given in 1872 show similarities of form and content to Plato's Republic. They are written as a continuous dialog between an aged philosopher and a group of younger interlocutors. They also argue for the necessity of a caste system, an educational system centered on a rigorous ascent through disciplines until one achieves communion with the metaphysical absolute, and other elements found in the Republic . This comparison of the lectures to the Republic examines the early Nietzsche's relation to Plato's theory of education and his metaphysics in order to draw out Nietzsche's dependence on and variance with Platonism and to understand what value he places on the study of the Greeks. In the course of the comparison Nietzsche's ambivalent relationships to German classicism, philological historicism, German nationalism, and German philosophy are also discussed.
 
AdviserEric Downing
SchoolTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
SourceMAI/ 45-04, p. , Jun 2007
Source TypeThesis
SubjectsClassical literature; Comparative literature; Germanic literature; Philosophy
Publication Number1442331
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