Document Type
Dissertation
Publication Date
1973
Abstract
This dissertation will be an exegesis of the educational thought of Friedrich Nietzsche with the central focus on his conception of the teacher as liberator. This will involve an analysis of his conception of freedom, an analysis which involves a grasp of his philosophy as a whole. Nietzsche never wrote a systematic educational philosophy. Yet, in a certain sense, education is his primary concern. "I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome.... The overman is the meaning of the earth." In Nietzsche's view, the conscious production of the overman, a person who is characterized by a conscious will to power, a conscious striving for self overcoming and creativity was the primary task of educators. In Nietzsche's educational thought one finds certain key conceptions that when comprehended render a total picture of his view of the role of education in society: will to power, eternal recurrence, sublimation, eros, creativity, innocence, solitude and the educator as liberator. It is the purpose of this dissertation to exposit Nietzsche's view of education by examining the aforementioned key conceptions, especially the conception of teacher as liberator.
DOI
10.7275/6bk8-7n95
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Sharp, Ann Margaret, "The teacher as liberator: an analysis of the philosophy of education of Friedrich Nietzsche (1973)" (1973). Collected Papers of Ann Margaret Sharp. 1.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/amsharp/1
Published Citation
Sharp, Ann Margaret (1973) The teacher as liberator: an analysis of the philosophy of education of Friedrich Nietzsche. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. URL = https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/12877.