Notes PREFACE 1. Nietzsche, Friedrich, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, translated with commentary by Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1966), Part One, 'On the Prejudices of Philosophers', 23, p. 32 (BGE). 2. Kant, Immanuel, Critique of Pure Reason, translated by J. M. D. Meiklejohn, introduced by A. D. Lindsay, (London: J. M. Dent New York: E. P. Dutton, 1934), 'Introduction', VI, 'The Universal Problem of Pure Reason', p. 36. 1 KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM IN THE TRAGIC AGE 1. Russell, Bertand, History of Western Philosophy, p. 44. 2. Aristotle, The Complete Works of Aristotle, The Revised Oxford Translation, edited by Jonathan Barnes, Bollinger Series (Prince­ ton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1984). 'On the Heavens, 294a, 27-32, Vol. I, p. 484. 'Metaphysics', Book 1, 983, 9-10,20, Vol. II, p. 1556. 3. Nietzsche, Friedrich, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, translated with an Introduction by Marianne Cowan (Chicago: Regnery Gateway, 1962), p. 45 (PTG). 4. Ibid., p. 44. 5. Ibid., p. 41. 6. Nietzsche, Friedrich, Philosophy and Truth, Selection from Nietzsche's Notebooks of the early 1870s, translated and edited with an introduction and notes by Daniel Breazeale and foreword by Walter Kaufmann (New Jersey: Humanities Press; Sussex, Harvester Press, 1979), No. 24, p. 6 (PT). 7. Guthrie, W. K. c., A History of Greek Philosophy, Vol. 1, The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962), Chapter III, p. 96. 8. Ibid., p. 98. 9. Ibid., p. 85. 10. PTG, p. 48. 11. See Kirk, G. S., Raven, J. E., and Schofield, M., The Presocratic Philosophers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957), p.108. 178 Notes to pp. 8-29 179 12. PIG, p. 45. 13. Heracieitus, On the Universe, Fragment XX, see Hippocrates Vol. IV and On the Universe, with an English translation by W. M. S. Jones, (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Heinemann, 1979), p. 477. Note: in references to the title of this edition, but not elsewhere, 'Heracieitus' is spelt thus. 14. Ibid., Fragment XXX. 15. Guthrie, W. K. c., op. cit., pp. 469-77. 16. PIG, p. 57. 17. Heracieitus, On the Universe, Fragment 1, p. 471. 18. Ibid., Fragment LIX, p. 489. 19. Ibid., Fragment LXXIX, p. 495. 20. PIG, p. 62. 21. Op. cit., Fragment LVII, p. 489. 22. Ibid., Fragment XLI, p. 483. 23. Nietzsche, Friedrich, The Will to Power, translated by Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale, edited, with commentary, by Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1968) (WP), No. 617, p.330. 24. Kirk, Raven and Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers, p. 243. 25. PIG, p. 89. 26. Kirk, Raven and Schofield, p. 358 (Fragment 1). 27. Ibid. 28. Ibid., p. 363 (fragment 12). 29. Ibid. 30. Ibid., p. 366 (Fragment 11). 31. PIG, p. 50. 32. See WP, Book Four, 'Discipline and Breeding', III, 'The Eternal Recurrence:' p. 550. 33. Ibid. 34. Ibid., Book One, 'European Nihilism', p. 7. 35. Nietzsche, Friedrich, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One, translated with an introduction by R. J. Hollingdale (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980), See especially 'Zarathustra's Prologue', pp. 45f.(Z). 36. Kirk, Raven and Schofield, p. 252 (Fragment 8). 37. Nietzsche, Friedrich, On the Genealogy of Morals, translated by Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale, and Ecce Homo, trans­ lated by Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1969) (GM and EH) EH, 'Why I am So Clever', 10, p. 258. 38. Adair, Robert K., The Great Design: Particles, Fields, and Creation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 3. 39. Heidegger, Martin, Nietzsche, Vol. I, The Will to Power as Art, translated with notes and an analysis by David Farrell Krell (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981), p. 61. First published in this translation in New York by Harper and Row, 1979. 180 Notes to pp. 30-48 2 SOCRATES AND DIALECTIC 1. Nietzsche, Friedrich, The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner, translated, with commentary, by Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1967). (BT and CW). BT, 13, p. 94. 2. Nietzsche, Friedrich, Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits, translated by R. J. Hollingdale, introduction by Erich Heller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986) (HAH). 'The Wanderer and His Shadow', No. 86, p. 332. 3. Nietzsche, Friedrich, The Gay Science, translated with commen­ tary, by Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1974), No. 340, p. 272 (GS). 4. BT, 'Attempt at a Self-Criticism', 1, p. 18. 5. Ibid., Section 9, pp. 67f. 6. Herac1eitus, op. cit., Fragment 104, p. 503. 7. See Kirk, Raven and Schofield, p. 252 (Fragment 8), and Chapter 1, above, p. 27. 8. Nietzsche, Friedrich, Twilight ofthe Idols and The Anti-Christ, trans­ lated, with an introduction and commentary by R, J. Hollingdale (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968) (TI and AC). See TI, 'The Prob­ lem of Socrates', 12, p. 34. 9. WP, Book Three, 'Principles of a New Evaluation', No. 530, p.286. 10. See Kant, Immanuel, Critique ofPure Reason, 'Transcendental Doc­ trine of Method', Chapter II, Section III, 'Of Opinion, Knowledge and Belief'. 11. Plato, The Collected Dialogues, edited by Edith Hamilton and Huntingdon Cairns, Bollingen Series LXXI (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1985), Theaetetus, 176a (Cornford's translation). 12. BT, Section 12, p. 82. 13. TI, 'The Problem of Socrates', 9, p. 33. 14. The meaning of aletheia has been often enough discussed but is perhaps not very firmly grasped. What I say here is a crude but just adequate rendering of Heidegger's accounts in Section II of the Introduction to Being and Time and in the first and second essays of Early Greek Thinking. 15. See above, especially pp. 13 and 37. 16. Z, Part One. 'Zarathustra's Prologue', p. 44. 17. GS, Book Four, 'Sanctus Januarius', 324, p. 255. 18. PT, 'The Philosopher: Reflections on the Struggle Between Art and Knowledge', No. 31, p. 9. 19. WP, Book Four, 'Discipline and Breeding', No. 906, pp. 506f. 20. TI, 'The Problem of Socrates', 9, p. 33. 21. BT, Section 9, p. 68. Notes to pp. 49-77 181 22. PT, 'The Philosopher: Reflections on the Struggle Between Art and Knowledge', No. 143, p. 48. 23. Aristotle, op. cit., Volume Two, 'Problems', Book XXX, 953a. 24. Plato, The Collected Dialogues, p. 1555. The translation is by Jowett. 25. Kaufmann, Walter, Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1974) First published 1950. Part lV, Chapter 13, 'Nietzsche's Attitude toward Socrates'. 3 PLATO'S 'REAL WORLD' 1. TI, 'How the "Real World" at last Became a Myth', p. 40. 2. The Complete Works of Aristotle, Vol. II, 'Metaphysics', Book XIII, 1078b, 25, p. 1705. 3. EH, 'Why I Am So Clever', I, p. 236. 4. PT, 'The Philosopher: Reflections on the Struggle Between Art and Knowledge', 19, p. 4. 5. Tejera, V., Nietzsche and Greek Thought (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, a member of the Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, 1987). See especially Chapter V. 6. AC, 15, pp. 15f. 7. GS, Book One, 54, p. 116. 8. Plato, Philebus, 24-7. 9. lbid.,30b. 10. See WP, Book Four, III, 'The Eternal Recurrence', 1062, pp. 546f: 'If there were for it [the universe] some unintended final state, this must also have been reached.' Nietzsche is contending that nothing can lie beyond perfect harmony and completeness; on reaching such a condition a body must come to an end. 11. Plato, Parmenides, 141. 12. Ibid., 130. 13. In Gilbert Ryle's The Concept of Mind (Hutchinson, 1949) it is, of course, the mind rather than the soul which is denied and termed a 'category-mistake', but the soul is likewise a category-mistake, if one assumes the soul to be a sort of (abstract) entity. 14. GM, Second Essay, Section 16, p. 84. 15. See Kant. Critique of Pure Reason, Part First, Section II, 'Conclu- sions of the Transcendental Aesthetic'. 16. Plato, Phaedo, 80b. 17. PT, No. 86, p. 33. 18. WP, Book Four, 'Discipline and Breeding', No. 1067, p. 550. 19. Ayer, A. J., Language, Truth and Logic (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971), p. 202. First published by Gollancz in 1936. 20. Heidegger, Martin, Nietzsche, Vol. II, The Eternal Recurrence {)f the 182 Notes to pp. 78-103 Same, translated with notes and an analysis by David Farrell Krell (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1964), p. 156. 21. See above, pp. 39ff. 4 THE LEGACY OF EURIPIDES 1. BT, Section 11, p. 77. 2. Aristotle, Vol. II, 'Poetics', 13, 1453, 29-30, p. 2325. 3. BT, Section 10, p. 73. 4. WP, Book Four, 'Discipline and Breeding', 1050, p. 539. 5. Quoted in H. A. Reyburn's Nietzsche: The Story of a Human Phi- losopher (London: Macmillan, 1948), p. 33. 6. WP, Book Four, 'Discipline and Breeding', 1067, p. 550. 7. BT, Section 10, p. 73. 8. Op. cit., 'Introduction', I, 'Of the Difference Between Pure and Empirical Knowledge', p. 26. 9. See BT, Sections 11 and 12. 10. Op. cit., Fragment I, p. 471. 11. BT, Section 10, p. 73. See above note 7. 12. Idem, Section 12, p. 82. 13. Idem, p. 83. 14. WP, Book Three, IV, 'The Will to Power as Art', 794, p. 419. 15. Z, Part Two, 'Of Self-Overcoming', p. 138. 16. WP, Book Three, IV, 'The Will to Power as Art', 796, p. 419. 17. See Derrida, Jacques, Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles, translated by Barbara Harlow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979), especially pp. 39f. First published in Paris, 1978. 18. Reading Nietzsche, ed. Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988). 19. Ibid. 20. BT, 'Attempt at a Self-Criticism', 2, p.