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Quotation from The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
“might not this very Socratism be a sign of decline, of weariness, of disease, of anarchically disintegrating instincts”
The Birth of Tragedy, Attempt at Self-Criticism, §1, trans. William A. Haussmann (1909)
The older Nietzsche frames the book's critique of Socrates in the medical language of symptom and decadence.
Citation: "might not this very Socratism be a sign of decline, of weariness, of disease, of anarchically disintegrating instincts" — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, Attempt at Self-Criticism, §1, trans. William A. Haussmann (1909). (id the-birth-of-tragedy-q2)
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