ABSTRACT

Nietzsche's is a pedagogical vision, one founded on the idea that the just society is one firmly and enthusiastically committed to the principle of learning – that is, to a common embrace of the life of embodied wisdom. The vision Nietzsche advances in Human, All Too Human is a pedagogical vision, but it is much more as well. It is a glimpse of the conception of the good life that pervades Nietzsche's writings from the beginning to the tragic end. One of Nietzsche's central contributions as an educational thinker is his almost singular preoccupation with questions about how to live well and what is worth striving for in a human life. Nietzsche envisions a society organized as a community of learning, which celebrates the achievements of human reason and holds up the teacher as an ideal synthesis of its several departments – virtue, beauty, health and knowledge.