Philosophy in the tragic age of the Greeks
Philosophy in the tragic age of the Greeks is an unfinished work by Friedrich Nietzsche from 1873. It is a compilation of notes that were planned as a "side piece" for the Birth of Tragedy published in 1872 and prepared by Nietzsche for printing had been. However, they were not published during the author's lifetime and were only found in his estate.
The usual code of the book in Nietzsche research is PhG .
Content and origin
The work contains explanations on Thales , Anaximander , Heraklit , Parmenides and Anaxagoras , who are generally regarded as pre-Socratics , but Nietzsche calls them pre-Platonists . Although Democritus , Empedocles and Socrates are also mentioned in the introduction , the script breaks off abruptly after the discussion about Anaxagoras.
In addition to the pre-Platonists , Nietzsche also mentions the writer Jean Paul , the philosopher Afrikan Spir , from whose book Thinking and Reality he cites an objection to Kant in the section on Anaxagoras , as well as Arthur Schopenhauer , from his main work Die Welt als Wille und , in connection with Greek philosophy Imagine he begins to distance himself at the end of the book.
Nietzsche's fondness for Greek philosophy was awakened during his studies with Friedrich Ritschl in Leipzig. As a professor of classical philology at the University of Basel , he read several times Plato's Life and Teachings as well as The Pre-Platonic Philosophers , a history of philosophers with a cultural and historical background. These records should form the basis of the book on the Pre-Platonists . Nietzsche met Richard Wagner in Leipzig in 1868, visited him regularly in Tribschen from May 1869 and adored him as "the image of the great Aeschylus ". His collaboration with Wagner now forced Nietzsche to put his philological work in the service of the master; H. in the service of a renewal of German culture based on Wagner's work of art. In order to show the importance of the philosopher within a culture, Nietzsche rewrote his manuscript three times, also modified the foreword and thought of giving it to Wagner either as a birthday present or as a commemorative publication for 1874 and Bayreuth . However, when he presented it to Wagner in Bayreuth in April 1873 , the latter responded with silence, since it obviously did not meet his expectations.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Section 7
- ↑ Section 15
- ↑ Section 19
- ^ Letter from Nietzsche to von Gersdorff dated March 2, 1873
- ^ Letter from Nietzsche to Erwin Rohde from 20./21. November 1872
- ↑ Gabriele C. Johann: Nietzsche's Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks in the context of education and the theory of science . introduction
literature
- Gabriele C. Johann: Nietzsche's philosophy in the tragic age of the Greeks in the context of education and the theory of science . GRIN Verlag, Munich 2004. 97 pages.
expenditure
- Friedrich Nietzsche: Complete Works. Critical Study Edition (KSA), Vol. 1, 2nd, reviewed edition, Berlin 1988, pp. 799–872.
- Friedrich Nietzsche: Philosophy in the tragic age of the Greeks . Reclam Paperback, 1994. ISBN 978-3-15-007133-5 .
