Jacob Burckhardt

Like we're rewiring our brain.

In the 1800s, there was a historian named Jacob Burckhardt, and he used to tell his students, you must know how to read.

And of course, his students already knew how to read.

I mean, he's teaching at a university.

They're a civic participation mechanism.

Jacob Burckhardt's line is the one to end that thought on.

No state, indeed, has ever exercised a greater moral influence over its subjects, whether abroad or at home.

Now zoom out, because Daniel asked how the wider world of intelligence worked before anyone used the word.

We have indeed got hold of a rare bird, Herr Ratcher, said one of these gentlemen to his companion, and that latter hardly agreed, for my brother's appointment had been chiefly his doing.

Even in Leipzig it was reported that Jacob Burckhardt had said Nietzsche is as much an artist as a scholar.

Privy Councillor Ritzkuhl told me of this himself, and then he added with a smile, I always said so.

He can make his scientific discourses as palpitatingly interesting as a French novelist his novels.

And in that forgetting, they replace it, like you said, with new myths that seek to justify the persistence of their domination, which they disavow as domination, right? So you have in capitalist society the bourgeoisie becoming this weird parasitical, almost like quasi-abusive class that doesn't acknowledge the or- its own origins.

And, like, if you take, uh, another Marxist philosopher who writes about the concept of Weltanschauung, Mikhail Lifshitz, he, uh, notes that when you see in 1848 the worker rebellion, a lot of new thinking amongst German philosophers but also French and English, say for example with Jacob Burckhardt, who's a huge influence on Nietzsche.

You see the emergence of a denial of certain, uh, forms of bourgeois expression that originated, uh, the bourgeois worldview.

But the basis of Burckhardt's denial of this sort of like, um, like, I don't know, like the universal liberal element of the, of the bourgeois culture- cultural worldview is on the basis of the class struggle.

"We have indeed got hold of a rare bird here, Ritschl," said one of these gentlemen to his companion, and the latter heartily agreed, for my brother's appointment had been chiefly his doing.

Even in Leipzig, it was reported that Jakob Burckhardt had said, quote, "Nietzsche is as much an artist as a scholar." End quote.

Privy Councilor Ritschl told me of this himself, and then he added with a smile, quote, "I always said so.

He can make his scientific discourses as palpitatingly interesting as a French novelist's novels." End quote.

We have indeed got hold of a rare bird here, Racher, said one of these gentlemen to his companion, and the latter heartily agreed, for my brother's appointment had been chiefly his doing.

Even in Leipzig, it was reported that Jacob Burckhardt had said, quote, Nietzsche is as much an artist as a scholar, end quote.

Privy Councillor Ritschl told me of this himself, and then he added with a smile, quote, I always said so.

He can make his scientific discourses as palpitatingly interesting as a French novelist his novels, end quote.