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Single Idea 24146

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy ]

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Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1884-85 [1884], 26[064])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]

The 7 ideas with the same theme [philosophy up to 410 BCE]:

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]