For Nietzsche the primary lesson and the framework within which his philosophy operated was Schopenhauerian in the sense that intuitive knowing was the object and aim of his philosophy.
The subject of his philosophy was the content and constitutive aspects of this form of knowing, and its approach is premised on the value of rending the veil of abstraction between theoretical and intuitively felt and performed knowledge, knowledge that was significant insofar as it was constitutive of the orientations that produced a sense of identity and meaningfulness of acts in the highly intuitive run of daily existence.
It asserts the primacy of practical reason as the starting point of philosophy.
The primacy of practical reason includes, as its most important end-goal, the rationalization of the intuitive features of daily life from a subjective viewpoint, one that is adequately informed by institutional instruction while able, insofar as it is the ground of independent and subjective fields of experience and correctly judges itself to be so, a independent adopter of reasoned beliefs.
It therefore hopes to train good judgement and a moral sense of responsibility and accountability for the beliefs which underlie, both intuitively and rationally, both individually and collectively our acts. It translates discpline, coercion and punishment into accountability, reason, and choice-based submission.
This ideal level of intersubjectively accomodating, individuating responsibility, coupled with a recognition and acknowledgement, and provisions for the essential animality, anti-rational, anti-truthfulness, and anti-idealistic, and destructive creative capacities of man, is the ONLY definition of Enlightenement progress, and its furtherance is the sole meaining of the half-meaningless life of the word 'civilisation'.
This is also the necessary precondition of a free society.
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