Conclusion

The idea of nature and ultimately philosophy itself is argued then, through Nietzsche, to arise out of a primitive understanding of nature as breeding or biology. Accordingly a second and closely related contribution of this thesis is a novel reading of Pindar: the concept of nature is seen to have its origin in the political regime of Archaic Greek aristocracy, and indeed to represent an abstraction or “distillation” of the standard underlying the aristocratic regime.