The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is best known for his critical texts on religion and morality, but how did he view Europe? Simon Glendinning notes that Nietzsche’s thought consistently exhibited a distinctively European orientation, with a conception of his own work as belonging to a European context, and not simply a German one or a more universal […]
Five Things You Need To Know About The Philosophy Of Europe
1. Europe enters philosophy in the context of a distinctively philosophical conception of human history. One might wonder what philosophy, as an a priori inquiry, can possibly have to say about history, which is, one might imagine, everywhere run through with contingency and chance. What philosophy brings to history is shaped by the anthropology that […]
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