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Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays Collected Works, Volume Two

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900)

36 chapters, about 46,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE 1,400 words
2. Preface to an Unwritten Book (1871) 4,300 words
3. THE GREEK WOMAN 1,500 words
4. ON MUSIC AND WORDS 4,700 words
5. Preface to an Unwritten Book (1872) 2,900 words
6. Preface to an Unwritten Book (1872) 1,300 words
7. PREFACE 300 words
8. LATER PREFACE 200 words
9. 1. 1,900 words
10. 2 1,100 words
11. 3. 1,700 words
12. 4 1,200 words
13. 5 1,600 words
14. 6 1,200 words
15. 7 800 words
16. 8 800 words
17. 9 1,300 words
18. 10 1,600 words
19. 11 1,100 words
20. 12 900 words
21. 13 500 words
22. 14 1,400 words
23. 15 1,600 words
24. 16 1,300 words
25. 17 900 words
26. 18 400 words
27. 19 1,300 words
28. 1 300 words
29. 2 300 words
30. 4 200 words
31. 5 300 words
32. DEMOCRITUS 200 words
33. 7 100 words
34. CONCLUSION 200 words
35. ON TRUTH AND FALSITY IN THEIR ULTRAMORAL SENSE 3,900 words
36. 2 1,400 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Antithesis
• Chaos (cosmogony)
• Fire
• Heraclitus (commentator)
• Metaphor
• Music
• Symbolism (movement)
• Water (classical element)

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