Nietzsche and the Greeks, the problem of the origin of philosophy

Publication Year: 1431 AH - 2010 AD Edition: 1 Number of Pages: 326 pages Cover: Paper cover Publisher: Dar Al-Arab for Science Publishers The importance of this research, in my personal estimation, lies in it being a "comprehensive study" in the sense of collecting scattered fragments and parts of studies conducted on the thought and personality of Nietzsche regarding the presence of Greek philosophy in his thought. And by the word "comprehensive," I do not mean a complete or similar study; rather, the spirit of relativity and humility is the most important thing a beginner researcher can take pride in. The third chapter of this research represents a "new addition" because I have not found any study — to the best of my knowledge so far, in the books available to me in both Arabic and French — that briefly indicates Nietzsche's stance towards the moral schools that followed Socrates, or the religious and mystical philosophy of Alexandria. To study this topic, I relied on the Cartesian method based on analysis and synthesis. First, I used analysis, which is compatible with the nature of the mind that tends to deconstruct and divide everything and return it to its original simple nature in order to reach the small, primary, and clear components. On the other hand, this method is suitable for understanding Friedrich Nietzsche's ideas, which sometimes are characterized by ambiguity and complexity, although "unmasking" is his primary psychological task. Then, I employed the synthetic method, which necessarily and mechanically follows the analysis process, to gather the separated elements that were analyzed and to synthesize them in order to draw conclusions that are as comprehensive and inclusive as possible.