Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V THE RELATIONSHIP OF SCHOPENHAUER'S PHILOSOPHY TO A GERMAN CULTURE--PHILOSOPHY IN THE TRAGIC AGE OF GREECE--ON TRUTH AND LYING IN AN AMORAL SENSE--THOUGHTS OUT OF SEASON. THE Relationship of Schopenhauer's Philosophy to a German Culture is a fragment composed in the autumn and winter of 1872. It is remarkable only as containing the germs of a few thoughts afterwards expanded and dealt with more fully in Schopenhauer as Educator. The Philosophy in the Tragic Age of Greece was sketched out in 1873 and then laid aside. Mrs. Foerster-Nietzsche tells us f that her brother did not care to retouch his earlier works, more especially when, as in the case of the present fragment, his knowledge of the subject had considerably increased when he again took up the MS. in 1879 to prepare it for the press. It did not, however, appear during his lifetime. Of the three essays, the Philosophy in the Tragic Age of Greece is undoubtedly the most important. Although only some thirty thousand words long, it gives an illuminating history of early Greek philosophy. (Nietzsche's original plan is indicated by a title he had in mind: The AntePlatonic Philosophy, with the Interpretation of Select Fragments.) The object of the essay is indicated in the words which conclude his first preface, written in 1874: "My task is to bring that to light which we must always love and honour, and which no later or more extensive knowledge will ever be able to take away from us: the great man." To find other works of equally deep learning, breadth of imagination, and felicity of style, we must turn to Dr. Gilbert Murray. The Truth and Lying was highly prized by Nietzsche himself, and he intended to expand it later into an essay uniform with those forming the Thoughts out...