Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays Collected Works, Volume Two · Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Anaxagoras has taken from Heraclitus the idea that in every Becoming and in every Being the opposites are together. He felt strongly the contradiction that a body has many qualities and he _pulverised_ it in the belief that he had now dissolved it into its true qualities. . . . . . . . _Plato:_ first Heraclitean, later Sceptic: Everything, even Thinking, is in a state of flux. Brought through Socrates to the permanence of the good, the beautiful. These assumed as entitative. All generic ideals partake of the idea of the good, the beautiful, and they too are therefore _entitative_, _being_ (as the soul partakes of the idea of Life). The idea is _formless_. Through Pythagoras' metempsychosis has been answered the question: how we can know anything about the ideas. Plato's end: scepticism in Parmenides. Refutation of ideology.
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