The pre-Platonic philosophers
by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
"The Pre-Platonic Philosophers reproduces the text of a lecture series delivered by the young Friedrich Nietzsche (then a philologist) at the University of Basel between 1872 and 1876. In these lectures, Nietzsche surveys the Greek philosophers from Thales to Socrates, establishing a new chronology for the progression of their natural scientific insights. Roughly formulating many of the themes he later developed at length, Nietzsche sketches concepts such as the will to power, eternal recurrenc…
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- Full title :The pre-Platonic philosophers / Friedrich Nietzsche ; translated from the German and edited, with an introduction and commentary, by Greg Whitlock.
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"The Pre-Platonic Philosophers reproduces the text of a lecture series delivered by the young Friedrich Nietzsche (then a philologist) at the University of Basel between 1872 and 1876. In these lectures, Nietzsche surveys the Greek philosophers from Thales to Socrates, establishing a new chronology for the progression of their natural scientific insights. Roughly formulating many of the themes he later developed at length, Nietzsche sketches concepts such as the will to power, eternal recurrence, and self-overcoming and links them to specific pre-Platonics." "This translation, complete with Nietzsche's own extensive sidenotes and philological citations, is accompanied by a prologue, introductory essay, and extensive translator's commentary."
"Whitlock's translation definitively confirms that Nietzsche grouped Socrates with the earlier Greeks, rather than with Plato and other "mixed character philosophers" as many interpreters have claimed. That Nietzsche's philosophical sympathies lay with the pre-Platonics, as opposed to the pre-Socratics, bears substantially on his later rejection of absolutes such as Truth, Knowledge, Beauty, and Being." "The Pre-Platonic Philosophers is invaluable both as a record of Nietzsche's views on the early Greek thinkers and as a prefigurement of key aspects of his mature philosophy."--Jacket.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2001.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication:Urbana
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2001.
Notes
"Excerpts from part 2, volume 4, of Nietzsche Werke, Kritische Gesamtausgabe, edited by Fritz Bornmann and Mario Carpitella, c1995"--Title page verso.
The Physical Object
- Description:xlvi, 287 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0252025598, 9780252025594, 0252074033, 9780252074035
- oclc:ocm42812962
- LC Classification:B187.5
- Dewey Decimal:182
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Wise (sophos) -- Mythical preliminary stage of philosophy -- Sporadic-proverbial preliminary stage of philosophy -- Preliminary stages of the Wise Man (sophos anar) -- Thales -- Anaximander -- Pythagoras -- Heraclitus -- Parmenides and his forerunner Xenophanes -- Zeno -- Anaxagoras -- Empedocles -- Leucippus and Democritus -- Pythagoreans -- Socrates.
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