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Nietzsche concludes a passage in The Gay Science by exclaiming, ‘Alas, my friends, we must overcome even the Greeks!’1 It is a matter for regret that we have to overcome the most philosophically gifted people hitherto. But why must we do this? Why may we not just continue to build on the Greeks’ achievements?
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See especially Heidegger, Martin, Early Greek Thinking, Translated by David Farrel Krell and Frank A. Capuzzi (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984).
Kaufmann, Walter, Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1974), Chapter 13, ‘Nietzsche’s Attitude toward Socrates’, and
Deleuze, Gilles, Nietzsche and Philosophy, translated by Hugh Tomlinson (London: The Athlone Press, 1983)
Guthrie, W. K. C., A History of Greek Philosophy, Vol. II, The Presocratic Tradition from Parmenides to Democritus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965).
See Heisenberg, Werner, Physics and Philosophy, Introduction by Paul Davies (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1989). First published in New York by Harper & Row, 1962.
The allusion is, of course, to Iris Murdoch’s The Sovereignty of Good (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970). The title is completed by the phrase ‘over other Concepts’.
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May, K.M. (1993). Overcoming the Greeks. In: Nietzsche on the Struggle between Knowledge and Wisdom. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22506-4_7
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