Becoming Nietzsche: Early Reflections on Democritus, Schopenhauer, and Kant.

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Becoming Nietzsche; early reflections on Democritus Democritus (dĭmŏk`rĭtəs), c.460–c.370 B.C., Greek philosopher of Abdera; pupil of Leucippus. His theory of the nature of the physical world was the most radical and scientific attempted up to his time. , Schopenhauer, and Kant.

Swift, Paul Paul, 1901–64, king of the Hellenes (1947–64), brother and successor of George II. He married (1938) Princess Frederika of Brunswick. During Paul's reign Greece followed a pro-Western policy, and the Cyprus question was temporarily resolved. .

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Little study has been done on German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's (1844-1900) work before 1869, says Swift (philosophy, Rhode Island College

This article is about the current institution that has used this name since its founding in 1854. For the institution that was founded in 1764 and which continued to use this name until 1804, see Brown University.

). He examines his surviving philosophical reflections from 1866 to 1868, especially looking at influences of the three earlier philosophers. Among the questions he address are what significance or value these early works hold, whether they are important for understanding his other works, and what importance they have for assessing him as a philosophical thinker.

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