Tag: natural philosophy

Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th century, had a profound respect and fascination for the Presocratic thinkers. These early Greek philosophers, such as Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Anaximander, were some of the first to approach the world with curiosity, reason, and metaphysical inquiry, and Nietzsche saw them as representing a pure,…