Nietzsche's Admiration for Socrates
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4455856 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Walter Kaufmann (0000-0002-8415-4896, corresponding author), Walter A Kaufmann (0000-0001-9735-5315) |
| Year | 1948 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 472 |
| Publication date | 1948-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2707219 |
| OpenAlex | W2335757635 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
I may seem to be a rather trivial problem whether Nietzsche happened to admire Socrates; and even the fact that almost all his interpreters and critics have harped on his alleged repudiation of Socrates could hardly give the present thesis much importance. Yet this is not a footnote on a footnote but part of a revaluation of Nietzsche's philosophy, and the present study reflects the overall revision. The immoral i s t who has been so often pictured as the heir of Callicles and Thrasymachus, the sophists whom Socrates sought to refute—the Nietzsche for whom Socrates was allegedly a villain appears to have modelled his entire philosophic enterprise in the image of Socrates. Important passages in the Zarathustra and at least one grotesque episode in Nietzsche's biography suddenly acquire a new meaning, and the Ecce Homo emerges as a mad attempt to overtrump the matchless irony of Socrates' Apology
Admiration · Art · Epistemology · Literature · SOCRATES · Education, Literature, Philosophy Research · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2021 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |