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As a classical philologist, Nietzsche was extremely familiar with the work of many ancient Greek writers. It is well known that Nietzsche made a practice of identifying with and praising ancient thinkers with whom he felt a kinship. It is worth investigating, then, whether Nietzsche's mention of Hippocrates in D signals a sustained interest in the...
As a classical philologist, Nietzsche was extremely familiar with the work of many ancient Greek writers. It is well known that Nietzsche made a practice of identifying with and praising ancient thinkers with whom he felt a kinship. It is worth investigating, then, whether Nietzsche’s mention of Hippocrates in D signals a sustained interest in the...
Antiphon is often criticized for confusing two distinct species of responsibility, causal and moral. Insofar as this distinction is fundamental to any mature legal or ethical theory, Antiphon appears at best naïve, at worst dishonest. I argue that a careful analysis of his second tetralogy reveals that Antiphon was well aware of the distinction and...
While many commentators have remarked on Nietzsche's admiration for the Greek historian Thucydides, most reduce the affinity between the two thinkers to their common commitments to “political realism” or “scientific naturalism.” At the same time, some of these same commentators have sought to minimize or dismiss Nietzsche's enthusiasm for the Greek...
While many commentators have remarked on Nietzsche's admiration for the Greek historian Thucydides, most reduce the affinity between the two thinkers to their common commitments to “political realism” or “scientific naturalism.” At the same time, some of these same commentators have sought to minimize or dismiss Nietzsche's enthusiasm for the Greek...
The twin impulses of the historian, to archive and to narrate, are often in tension. The archivist wants to collect and preserve, indiscriminately and exhaustively, the artefacts of history. The narrator, by contrast, seeks to tell a story by emphasizing certain of those artefacts at the expense of others, judging, at least implicitly, which of the...
Of his first book, Die Geburt der Tragödie, Nietzsche later confessed that, though not without its virtues, “trotzdem will ich nicht gänzlich unterdrücken, wie unangenehm es mir jetzt erscheint, wie fremd es jetzt nach sechzehn Jahren vor mir steht” (BT “Versuch einer Selbstkritik” 2). The mature Nietzsche of 1886 struggles to find himself in the p...
