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Onderwerp: Re: the teaching profession
Dea>
> allen scult wrote on 6/11/04, 5:30 PM:
>
> > I'm wondering what we should make of Nietzsche's last words (in the
> > note to Burckart) before he left us: "Dear Professor, all things
> > considered, I would rather be a professor at Basel, than God."
> >
> > Of course it's funny and gets funnier the more you think about it,
> > but maybe there IS a way to take it (the Nietzschianan admonition to
> > the contrary notwithstanding), that really captures its significance.
> >
> > Thanking you in advance, I am,
> >
> > Allen
Allen,
When Burckhardt and Nietzsche were colleages, they had private conversations.
Nietzsche later testified that it had been Burchardt who had conferred to him a
sense for world history. To Nietzsche's books he had reacted favoribly till
Also sprach Zarathustra. They met only once more after this book. At the end
of a cautious talk, Burckhardt suggested ironically to Nietzsche, that he maybe
could try a drama now, or a novel.
When Nietzsche got mad (Dionysos), he also wrote, that now he, Burckhardt,
was the wisest man on earth.
So when Nietzsche writes that he rather would have remained a professor, he merely
indicates that what had happened with him, was not a matter of fun. Not even of choice.
regards
rene
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