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Full Idea
All the major problems were formulated before Socrates.
Gist of Idea
All the major problems were formulated before Socrates
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1884-85 [1884], 26[064])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1884-85 (v 15)', ed/tr. Loeb,P.S./Tinsley,D.F. [Stanford 2022], p.149
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.
Related Idea
Idea 7719 European philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato [Whitehead]
5988 | Anaximander produced the first philosophy book (and maybe the first book) [Anaximander, by Bodnár] |
3060 | Plato never mentions Democritus, and wished to burn his books [Plato, by Diog. Laertius] |
24146 | All the major problems were formulated before Socrates [Nietzsche] |
2900 | I revere Heraclitus [Nietzsche] |
12036 | Xenophanes began the concern with knowledge [Annas] |
20455 | Philosophy really got started as the rival mode of discourse to tragedy [Critchley] |
21355 | The Pre-Socratics are not simple naturalists, because they do not always 'leave the gods out' [Leroi] |