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Yazılmamış beş Kitap İçin beş Önsöz-Yunanlılar'ın Trajik Çağında Felsefe
Friedrich Nietzsche
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4 reviews for:
Yazılmamış beş Kitap İçin beş Önsöz-Yunanlılar'ın Trajik Çağında Felsefe
Friedrich Nietzsche
3.93 AVERAGE
An unfinished early manuscript by the last great metaphysician of the West examining several pre-Socratic philosophers of the early classical age. This is a slim volume, but Nietzsche manages to pack in a thorough review of Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Anaxagoras. As a trained philologist, Nietzsche knew the Greeks well and pulls the reader into the marvelous ancient culture that produced these philosophers. Although I found the treatment of Parmenides somewhat dismissive, Nietzsche offers striking portraits of the great early thinkers that are essential to anyone with a serious interest in philosophy, Nietzsche or classical Greece.
I read this book translated by Marianne Cowan and published by Gateway but in 1962. The translator's preface is very good. The book itself is quite interesting with an expressive writing form that rises easily to the dramatic. Peeking out between the words is a philosopher who is reinterpreting the pre-Socratic Greeks in terms of his own concerns. A philosopher with an eye on the characteristics which make a philosopher long-lived in the eyes of readers. A philosopher who projects a sense of disdain for those who are his intellectual inferiors, of whom apparently there are many. The pre-Socratic upon whom he directs most of his attention is Anaximander.
Written between 1873 and 1874, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks is a fundamental text of the first period of Nietzsche's thought. While teaching a course on pre-Socratic philosophy at the University of Basel in Switzerland, Nietzsche was fascinated by how these philosophers combined thinking and living.
i mean i liked the stuff i managed to understand. I'll try to read if again in few years because it's to hard for me right now.