Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1983
Journal / Book Title
The Great Year of Zarathustra (1881-1981)
Abstract
Friedrich Nietzsche was aware of the dangers of the state control over education, as well as the dangers of the technical society in general. Dehumanization, loss of freedom and power to create alternatives for the society could spell the death of the society itself. Human beings could well become nothing more than cogs in a machine of production and consumption. The human self whose urge is the will to grow, to become more, will eventually have nothing to will anymore. Ohly an education which encourages a new conception of freedom -- intellectual freedom as the self affirmation of life against anything which attempts to turn it into an object, can rescue us from nihilism and total disintegration.
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Sharp, Ann Margaret, "(1983) Education for Autonomy: A Nietzschean Perspective" (1983). Collected Papers of Ann Margaret Sharp. 2.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/amsharp/2
Published Citation
Sharp, Ann Margaret (1983) Education for Autonomy: A Nietzschean Perspective. In David Goiccechea (Ed.) The Great Year of Zarathustra (1881-1981), pp. 182-200. University Press of America.