Nietzsche and Greek Thought

I. Nietzsches Philosophic Historiography.- Nietzsches Use of Intellectual History.- History and the Self -Definition of Humanity.- II. Nietzsche on the Greek Decline.- Socrates as a Symptom of the Greek Decline.- III. Nietzsche on the Early Presocratics.- Philosophy in the Tragic Age.- Nietzsche on Anaximander.- Nietzsche on Herakleitos.- Nietzsche and Parmenides.- IV. Positivism and Ecstasy.- Rationality without Beauty, Release without Proportion.- Poetry as Dianoia, Imagination as Rationality.- V. Keeping Track of Socrates.- The Socrates of the Pythagorizing and Oligarchal Tradition.- Nietzsches Traditionalist Reading of Plato.- VI. What Nietzsche Loved About Socrates.- Nietzsches Dialectic and Anti-Systematics.- Platos Socrates is Not a Twilit Idol.- VII. The Tyranny of Reason.- Rationalism and Morality, Reason and Nature.- Mans Fatedness is Existential.- Nietzsches Remarks on Aristotle, and the Tragic Sense.- Epilogue.