Third Lecture

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In these "Untimely Meditations," Nietzsche held up a mirror to his era, which clung to a perception that was unsatisfactory and painful for him, in such a way that he countered everything his contemporaries said with what a complete human being must find and invent within himself in order to endure what, in Nietzsche's opinion, his contemporaries could imagine themselves to be philistinely happy in. He presented David Friedrich Strauss as the very type of philistine who points to the satisfactions of the external world of perception and who, in a homespun manner, does not want to rise above this world of perception to a higher plane of consciousness.

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