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Circmumnavigators of life's remote and dangerous regions : Nietzsche and the pre-platonic philosophers
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Ansell-Pearson, Keith (2017) Circmumnavigators of life's remote and dangerous regions : Nietzsche and the pre-platonic philosophers. Journal of the Dialectics of Nature, 39 (3). doi:10.15994/j.1000-0763.2017.03.01 ISSN 1000-0763 .
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Abstract
In this essay I examine Nietzsche’s reception of the major pre-Platonic figures and illuminate his appraisal of them. Although dismissed by Heidegger as lacking in intellectual value, an appreciation of Nietzsche’s early inquiry into the beginnings of Greek philosophy is vital to understanding his beginnings and some of the fundamental philosophical problems he will wrestle with throughout his intellectual life. Nietzsche’s retrieval of early Greek thought is one of the first attempts in Europe to contest the authority of Aristotle on their value and importance. For him the original Greek philosophers put us moderns to shame since their thinking and character are devoid of conventionality with no academic professionalism. They lived lives of magnificent solitude and devoted themselves to the task of fashioning an individual form; taken together they form a republic of creative minds in contrast to a republic of scholars. Nietzsche notes that where other peoples have saints, the Greeks had sages. Whilst in other cultures the philosopher exists as a chance random wanderer, in ancient Greece he was not an accident. In the case of the great philosophers we encounter a rare and impressive resourcefulness, a daring that is both desperate and hopeful, it is life pushing itself further and further, upwards and ever higher or more encompassing, as if the thinker possessed the spirit of one of the globe’s great circumnavigators. This is what the great thinker is, a circumnavigator of ‘life’s most remote and dangerous regions.’
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the Dialectics of Nature | ||||||
| Publisher: | Zhongguo Kexueyuan Yanjiushengyuan | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1000-0763 | ||||||
| Official Date: | May 2017 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 39 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.15994/j.1000-0763.2017.03.01 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 March 2017 | ||||||
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