The Pre-Platonic Philosophers"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."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
Translators Preface | xiii |
Translators Introduction | xxxv |
SEVEN Anaximander | 31 |
THIRTEEN Anaxagoras | 94 |
FOURTEEN Empedocles | 106 |
FIFTEEN Leucippus and Democritus | 120 |
271 | |
Acknowledgments | 277 |
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