Nietzsche asserts that animals and humans feel differently about time. Animals are not worried about the past and the future; they live only in the present. That is why they have no history because history connects with the past. In turn, people have a history associated with the past, and there is no escape from this. People strive to live in the present, but they cannot since past events directly impact the present ones, and it isn’t easy to draw a dividing line between these periods.
Read Nietzsche’s “On the advantage and disadvantage of history for life.” What does Nietzsche say with regard to animals’ and humans’ sense of time? Why don’t animals have ‘history’? What do you think it means that humans aspire to live in the present but can’t?
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