Reading Nietzsche through the ancients : an analysis of becoming, perspectivism, and the principle of non-contradiction

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Title:

Author:

Meyer, Matthew.

ISBN:

9781934078419

Personal Author:

Meyer, Matthew.

Publication Information:

Boston : De Gruyter, 2014.

Physical Description:

xiii, 304 p. ; 25 cm.

Series:

Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung, Bd. 66

Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung ; Bd. 66.

Contents:

Becoming, being, and the problem of opposites in Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks -- Aristotle's defense of the principle of non-contradiction in Metaphysics IV -- Naturalism, becoming, and the unity of oposites in Human, All Too Human -- Heraclitean becoming and Protagorean perspectivism in Plato's Theaetetus -- Heraclitean becoming, Protagorean perspectivis, and the will to power in Beyond Good and Evil.

Personal Subject:

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Subject Term:

Philosophy, Comparative.

Philosophy, Ancient.

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Summary

Nietzsche's work was shaped by his engagement with ancient Greek philosophy. Matthew Meyer analyzes Nietzsche's concepts of becoming and perspectivism and his alleged rejection of the principle of non-contradiction, and he traces these views back to the Heraclitean-Protagorean position that Plato and Aristotle critically analyze in the Theaetetus and Metaphysica IV, respectively. At the center of this Heraclitean-Protagorean position is a relational ontology in which everything exists and is what it is only in relation to something else. Meyer argues that this relational ontology is not only theoretically foundational for Nietzsche's philosophical project, in that it is the common element in Nietzsche's views on becoming, perspectivism, and the principle of non-contradiction, but also textually foundational, in that Nietzsche implicitly commits himself to such an ontology in raising the question of opposites at the beginning of both Human, All Too Human and Beyond Good and Evil.