Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

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Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

Cover of 1962 Regnery Gateway edition
Author	Friedrich Nietzsche
Original title	Philosophie im tragischen Zeitalter der Griechen
Language	German
Subject	Pre-Socratic philosophy
Published	Posthumously

Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (German: Philosophie im tragischen Zeitalter der Griechen) is an incomplete book by Friedrich Nietzsche. He had a clean copy made from his notes with the intention of publication. The notes were written around 1873. In it he discussed five Greek philosophers from the sixth and fifth centuries BC. They are Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Anaxagoras. He had, at one time, intended to include Democritus, Empedocles, and Socrates. The book ends abruptly after the discussion of Anaxagoras's cosmogony.