Saul Bellow.. . Nietzche himself had a Christian view of history, seeing the present moment always as some crisis, some fall from classical greatness, some corruption or evil to be saved from.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, believed that all of history is nothing but the struggle between good and evil. He believed that this battle was not simply fought by people in the past, but by people today. He saw himself as a child of the future.
Source: Herzog
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