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Ideas for Archimedes, Brad W. Hooker and Friedrich Nietzsche

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy
2900 I revere Heraclitus [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: I set apart with high reverence the name of Heraclitus.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 2.2)
24146 All the major problems were formulated before Socrates [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: All the major problems were formulated before Socrates.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1884-85 [1884], 26[064])
     A reaction: So much for it all being 'footnotes to Plato'! Nietzsche's lectures on the pre-Socratics are in print. Given how little survives, this idea is surprising. Nietzsche knew enough to infer a lot of what is lost.
1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy
2913 Thucydides was the perfect anti-platonist sophist [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: My recreation, my preference, my cure from all Platonism has always been Thucydides. …Sophist culture, by which I mean realist culture, attains in him its perfect expression.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 9.2)
1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / d. Nineteenth century philosophy
20255 Early 19th century German philosophers enjoyed concepts, rather than scientific explanations [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: Early 19th century German philosophers retreated to the first and oldest level of speculation, for, like the thinkers of dreamy ages, they found satisfaction in concepts rather than in explanations - they resuscitated a prescientific type of philosophy.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 197)
     A reaction: I have a suspicion that this may still apply to 'continental philosophy'. Personally I love explanations, which lead to understanding. But not all explanations are scientific.
20260 Carlyle spent his life vainly trying to make reason appear romantic [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: Thomas Carlyle spent a long life trying to make reason romantic to his fellow Englishmen: to no avail!
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 298)
     A reaction: An interesting gloss on the shift from the Enlightenment to the Romantic era. Presumably the idea of the 'genius' and the 'hero' are the means whereby Carlyle hoped to achive this.