4-2A. Nietzsche on Aristocracy and the Decay of Aristocratic Regime as Preconditions for High Culture, Philosophy, and Tyranny.

a) Aristocratic physical culture as precondition of philosophical life. Critias - Socrates’ criminal, tyrannical, and mad student, is said to have written an abstraction or radicalization of the Spartan constitution, which he understood to have as its purpose the breeding of a “physically supreme specimen.” The Spartan regime is perhaps enough to produce this intended result