Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil

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But the struggle against Plato, or—to speak plainer, and for the "people"—the struggle against the ecclesiastical oppression of millenniums of Christianity (FOR CHRISTIANITY IS PLATONISM FOR THE "PEOPLE"), produced in Europe a magnificent tension of soul, such as had not existed anywhere previously; with such a tensely strained bow one can now aim at the furthest goals. As a matter of fact, the European feels this tension as a state of distress, and twice attempts have been made in grand style to unbend the bow: once by means of Jesuitism, and the second time by means of democratic enlightenment—which, with the aid of liberty of the press and newspaper-reading, might, in fact, bring it about that the spirit would not so easily find itself in "distress"! (The Germans invented gunpowder—all credit to them! but they again made things square—they invented printing.) But we, who are neither Jesuits, nor democrats, nor even sufficiently Germans, we GOOD EUROPEANS, and free, VERY free spirits—we have it still, all the distress of spirit and all the tension of its bow! And perhaps also the arrow, the duty, and, who knows? THE GOAL TO AIM AT....

 

Prøver Nietzsche å få oss til å tro at tyskland oppfant kruttet, eller tar han bare bastant feil basert på feilaktig kilder på den tiden.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Schwarz

Men det virker som dette er en inbildning enkelte på den tiden hadde. At denne personen som har blitt akkreditert som oppfinneren av kruttet er fiktiv.

 

Her er det egentlig Kina som blir akkreditert som oppfinner av kruttet. Som vi alle egentlig vet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_gunpowder

[Vox_populi]

Jenseits von Gut und Böse. Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft er fra 1886. Det ville være meget oppsiktsvekkende om det filosofiske verket ikke inneholdt "feil" innen vitenskap, inkludert historie, så klart.
På samme måte er det trygt å spå at dine og mine skriblerier vil være fulle av "bastante feil" om 130 år.