Consuetudo per quam philosophi qui ante Socratem vixerunt praesocraticos appellantur orta est in Fragmente der Vorsokratiker,libro Hermanni Diels (1903), quamquam ipse vocabulum non excogitaverat.[3]Vocabulum philosophice utile putatur quia institutio quae Schola Athenarum appellari solebat (plerumque Socrates, Plato, et Aristoteles) altam in rebus et rationibus philosophiae mutationem significavit; thesis Friderici Nietzsche, quod haec mutatio cum Platone potius quam Socrates coepit (unde nomen philosophia praeplatonica quo utebatur), vim distinctionis praesocraticae non debilitavit.[4]
↑Anglice: "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." Process and Reality, pars II, cap. I, sect. I.
↑Anglice: "contact with oriental cosmology and theology helped to liberate the early Greek philosophers' imagination; it certainly gave them many suggestive ideas. But they taught themselves to reason. Philosophy as we understand it is a Greek creation." Griffin, Boardman, et Murray 2001:140.
↑Greg Whitlock, praefatio ad The Pre-Platonic Philosophers Friderici Nietzsche (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001), xiv–xvi.
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