F. Nietzsche?

Question

Please xplain the following statement. Friedrich Nietzsche critiques the Enlightenment ideal of progress through a critique of the "transcendental pretense" and its understanding of self and subjectivity.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

First lets get some definitions. Enlightenment ideal of progress is an idea that sprang up from the Enlightenment period. This was an idea that people could become progress toward perfection through a "well-thought pedagogy". Basically teaching that the acquisition of knowledge through teaching leads to perfection.

The "transcendental pretense" is "the idea that all people everywhere are the same. This was meant to counteract the traditional view that some people, mainly the upper class educated and wealthy, are better than others, mainly the uneducated and poor serfs and servant class."
This is what you might relate to "all men were created equal ..."

I'm not quite sure how Nietzsche was critiquing these ideas, sorry.

Answer 3

The Enlightenment ideal assumed there was an ideal behind reality, that the pretense to the transcendental lay under the foundations we have built of reality to validate our lives. However, Nietzsche saw past this and called it a sham saying we needn't relly on vague promises of meaning via foggy myths when we grasp the power in ourselves. Falling to the fog of transcendental myth one can never truly appreciate the power of self and the glory of an intersubjective world of willed individuals as a community seperate powerful yet together. While we seek for meaning in the transcendental (if it be God, The Absolute, whatever) we are forever tied under the yoke of self deception in the enslaved comfort and comformity of meaning. We are placed under an objective mastery and we are (at best) just parts of something greater but never great in ourselves.
Its Nietzsche's great punch at Hegel really.
Wow-surprised i remember any of that.

Answer 4

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