Ciência e o ideal clássico nos escritos filológicos de Nietzsche

Science and the Classical Ideal in Nietzsche’s Philological Writings

Abstract

In this article, I intend to show that, as the Nietzschean philology has the education (Bildung) as the main goal, the search for the classical ideal in the Greco-Roman antiquity is a priority, a feature that contradicts the scientific impulses, which when taken in isolation, are contrary to the very essence of education. However, we
will also see that Nietzsche’s aim will not be to neutralize the scientific impulses, but to place them in the service of the educational purpose. In other words, the scientific tendencies of philology, namely history and linguistics, would have to contribute, in this sense, not to the knowledge of the truth, but to the determination of the classical ideal.

Keywords: Nietzsche; philology; classical ideal; science; linguistics.