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Beyond Good and Evil #1: Faith in Opposite Values (Preface & I.1-I.5)

The Nietzsche Podcast

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The Dogmatist Error of Plato

"How could the most beautiful growth of antiquity, Plato, contract such a disease? Did the wicked Socrates corrupt him after all?" he asks. "And did he deserve his hemlock?" The last line is one of my favorites because it's such a radical attack on Socrates to not only disagree with and criticize Socrates, but to say maybe the Athenians were right to execute him.

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