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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.
Gist of Idea
Thucydides was the perfect anti-platonist sophist
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 9.2)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.106
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