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I'm reading Nietzsche's lectures on the Pre-Platonics. Good stuff. I like that he has the balls to question received history. He has compelling research that challenges the "sucession" of teacher to student, showing to be mere legend the idea that Thales taught Anaximander and Anaximander taught Anaximenes all the way down to Plato and Aristotle.
Pythagoras is an interesting character as well. I didn't know he'd started a religious cult... He was like L. Ron Hubbard or Joseph Smith back in the day, but like if they were really into math...
Anybody read this?
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