Abstract

The following text is a fragment of a doctoral work and will cover a specific period of the young Nietzsche's life, when he served as a nurse-soldier in the Franco-Prussian war. It was the moment of writing his first book The birth of tragedy. The struggle for culture figured as the weapon used to prevail in favor of its elevation. It was intended that she return to the classics of Antiquity and Germany as horizons to guide a thought as an “instrument of combat”. In addition to this direct experience in the war, these missives refer to art, especially the musical, which, in our understanding, figured as an educational medium. It is worth noting that several moments in Nietzsche's daily experience, his occupations, creations, fights, doubts, suffering, work; all were springs that propelled his thinking and the constitution of a personality that learned and created ways to educate himself and also generated an instrument for thinking and confronting the dominant way of life in his time.