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Dale Wilkerson's book shows how, like many of his contemporaries, Nietzsche looked to the Greeks in an attempt to alleviate Europe's woes. His work in this area resembles that of the cultural anthropologist who uncovers formal differences in social manners that might explain the development of humankind's most important instincts-those for carving out personal identity and for forging social unity. Nietzsche and the Greeks is a much needed guide to this fascinating subject matter.
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Nietzsche and the Greeks Continuum Studies in Philosophy: Tolerance and the Ethical Life, Andrew Fiala Aquinas and the Ship of Theseus, Christopher M. Brown Descartes and the Metaphysics of Human Nature, Justin Skirry Kierkegaard's Analysis of Radical Evil, David A. Roberts Rousseau's Theory of Freedom, Matthew Simpson Leibniz Reinterpreted: The Harmony of Things, Lloyd Strickland Popper's Theory of Science, Carlos Garcia Nietzsche and the Greeks Dale Wilkerson continuum LONDON • NEW YORK Continuum International Publishing Group The Tower Building 11 York Road London SE1 7NX 80 Maiden Lane Suite 704 New York NY 10038 www.continuumbooks.com © Dale Wilkerson 2006 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Dale Wilkerson has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: 0-8264-8903-6 (hardback) Typeset by YHT Ltd, London Printed and bound in Great Britain by Biddies Ltd., King's Lynn, Norfolk Contents Abbreviations vii 1 2 3 4 1 20 51 5 Classical Studies for the Benefit of a Time to Come Who are Nietzsche's Greeks? Scepticism, Pessimism and the Exemplar of Greek Culture Formal Variation in Pre-Platonic Cosmologies and Nietzsche's Doctrine of Will to Power Nietzsche's Leap on the Boundary Stone, Heraclitus Index 89 134 155 V This page intentionally left blank Abbreviations A Anti-Christ, in Twilight of the IdolslThe Anti-Christ, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (New York: Penguin, 1968) BGE Beyond Good and Evil, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage Books, 1989) (the number given is the aphorism number) Breazeale Daniel Breazeale (ed. and trans.) Philosophy and Truth: Selections from Nietzsche's Notebooks of the Early 1870s (New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1979) BT The Birth of Tragedy D Daybreak, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) (the number given is the aphorism number) EH Ecce Homo, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (New York: Penguin, 1992) GM On the Genealogy of Morals, ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson, trans. Carol Diethe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) GS The Gay Science, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1974) (the number given is the aphorism number) H Human All Too Human, trans. Marion Faber (Lincoln, NA: Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, 1996) (the number given is the aphorism number) HOC 'Homer on Competition', in On the Genealogy of Morals, ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson, trans. Carol Diethe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) vii viii ABBREVIATIONS KGW Nietzsche Werke: Kritische Gesamtausgabe, ed. Fritz Bornmann and Mario Carpitella (Berlin and New York: Wal