The Untimely and the Unhistorical

For Nietzsche, the unhistorical doesn't mean that you enter into some kind of eternity. It means that you act in a way that counters or refuses to subordinate itself to the past. So there's always this creative drive behind his ideas when it comes to how history can serve life. He is a somewhat subversive idea because if you study history formally, like at college, "there's no action that was ever taken without monstrous injustice"

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