Telling the compelling story of western philosophy from Plato to Nietzsche Mark Anderson
presents a series of through-provoking interpretations of its major figures. Anderson traces
western thought through the conflict between the order of Being and the change of Becoming.
Identifying Plato as the premiere philosopher of Being and Nietzsche as the peerless advocate
of Becoming the book tracks the transition from a realist worldview to the world of skepticism
relativism and nihilism we inhabit today. Traveling from the ancient Greeks to modern
nihilists Anderson explores the thought of Parmenides and Heraclitus Plato Aristotle and
Plotinus Augustine Aquinas and Ockham Descartes Hume and Kant. This book is essential
reading for anyone interested in Platonism its place in the history of western metaphysics
and its power to help us understand the ethical crisis of our postmodern world.
