Autore
Sánchez Meca, Diego

Titolo
La filología clásica: ¿saber humanístico o disciplina científica?
Periodico
Bollettino della Società Filosofica Italiana
Anno: 2025 - Volume: 246 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 11 - Pagina finale: 26

This article analyzes the conflict that, for the young Nietzsche, is inherent in the very concept of classical philology – namely, the contradiction between its nature as a historical science and the extra-scientific educational dimension implied by the adjective “classical”. Therefore, the central aim of his analysis is to examine the ideal principles that originally inspired classical philology and to assess their status within its modern, positivistic development. Precedents for this problem are found in the pedagogical embodiment of Humboldt’s neo-humanist program, which proposes Greek culture as an aesthetic and moral model for building the unity of the German people. Although this program appears to continue the great tradition of great classicists such as Goethe, Schiller, Winckelman, and Lessing, Nietzsche concludes that the philological-humanist project failed to meet the expectations placed upon it because the aesthetic-moral ideals of the great classicists were postponed and ultimately forgotten as the positive-critical method of philology advanced. From this perspective, Nietzsche develops a critique of classical philology that targets both the inevitable contradiction between the ideals of the Greek spirit and those of the modern culture in which classical philology is embedded, and the discipline’s degeneration into a positivist science. This reduces it to a set of merely technical and mechanical tasks – such as source research, textual editing, and commentary – resulting in historical knowledge with no higher purpose than the accumulation of details and the aggrandizement of the discipline itself.



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