Nietzsche tried to destroy Platonism.
by smarmyhipster
Posted to What Are You Reading? on 2003-12-01 07:11:00
Parent message is 551787
Neitzche had Plato in mind when he wrote, turning Plato upside down. Zarathrustra came down from a mountain to prophesize, imagery similar but opposite to Plato’s allegory of the cave. Plato believed people labored in the dark world of illusion, describing people in a dark cave seeing only dark shadows and thinking them to be what reality is; and the very blinding and painful ascent one of them makes out of the cave when he finally sees how things really are (then he goes in back to the cave with the truth, and the others kill him in a fit of anger). Zarathrustra came down knowledgable. I love Plato, but I think that the moderns “won” in this day and age.