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54: Thucydides - The Cure for Plato

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Nietzsche's Philosophy of Justice

After the Persian entry into the war cities begin to break away from the Delian League at an alarming rate and shortly thereafter Athens submits to Sparta. Plato's political philosophy in the wake of Thucydides account of the Peloponnesian War appears to Nietzsche as something naive or ridiculous right I want to conclude with a look at a passage from wanderer and his shadow the third and final book of human-altic human this is section 31 quote so men for the sake of security have made themselves equal in order to found communities but as also this conception is imposed by a sort of constraint as is entirely opposed to the instincts of the individual. If the community however collapses utterly an

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