In his notes Nietzsche refers to 'The Struggle between Science and Wisdom exhibited in the ancient Greek philosophers'. Nietzsche's own view about 'science' (learning) was to the effect that, at its best, it should be greatly respected yet always tested by the demands of personal wisdom. Keith May considers the meaning and implications of Nietzsche's belief in relation to philosophy up to the time of Aristotle, and then its bearing on modern (essentially nihilistic) attitudes, to which it supplies something of an antidote.

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Book Title: Nietzsche on the Struggle between Knowledge and Wisdom
Authors: Keith M. May
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22506-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-08992-4Due: 18 December 1992
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-22508-8Published: 01 January 1993
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-22506-4Published: 15 February 1993
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 193
Topics: History of Philosophy, Literature, general

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Knowledge and Wisdom in the Tragic Age

Socrates and Dialectic

Plato’s ‘Real World’

The Legacy of Euripides

Aristotle’s ‘Being’ and Nietzsche’s ‘Will to Power’

Ariadne and the Labyrinth

Overcoming the Greeks

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