I’ve had Plato and Nietzsche both fighting for access to my Muse, and for the record, here’s why I appreciate both of them, but Platonic Surrealism sends them both packing.
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1. Rejection of Platonic Essentialism
Nietzsche disagreed with Plato’s theory of forms or essences, which posits that abstract concepts like justice, beauty, and goodness have an eternal, unchanging existence. Nietzsche argued that this essentialism is a form of dogmatic thinking that stifles creativity and individuality.
AGREED. 1 Point Nietzsche. This is why Platonic Surrealism doeesn’t idealize FORMS, but POTENTIAL properties and interactions between properties. This was the fix for Plato’s mistake in this area.
2. Critique of Platonic Dualism
Plato’s philosophy is characterized by a dualism between the world of senses (the physical world) and the world of forms (the realm of abstract concepts). Nietzsche saw this dualism as a form of “otherworldliness” that devalues the physical world and the human experience.
Agreed. ½ Point to Nietzsche. Platonic Surrealism is ontologically flat and neutral (reality has no preferred state) but Nietzsche had a real point.
3. Rejection of the Idea of a Permanent, Unchanging Self
Plato believed in the concept of an immortal soul, which exists before birth and continues to exist after death. Nietzsche, on the other hand, believed in the concept of the “Will to Power,” which emphasizes individual creativity, self-overcoming, and the rejection of a fixed, essential self.
½ Point to Nietzsche. The Schopenhaur-ic ‘will to power’ that Nietzsche stole is a reference to Awareness (AWARENESS when embodied). In Platonic Surrealism there is
A Self, but it’s every changing and temporary. It tends to only last a few multiverses worth of time, then unbinds itself from Awareness and starts over.
4. Disagreement with Platonic Epistemology
Plato believed that knowledge can be acquired through reason and contemplation of the forms. Nietzsche, however, believed that knowledge is a product of individual perspectives, and that truth is a matter of interpretation rather than objective fact.
No points. Gnostic realization or scholarly research. But Platonic Surrealism acknowledges that everything is deception from the first moment of time. (Self-deception powers everything). Neither had a clue.
5. Nietzsche’s Critique of Platonic Morality
Nietzsche was critical of Plato’s moral philosophy, which emphasizes the importance of reason, justice, and the common good. Nietzsche saw this morality as a form of “slave morality” that stifles individual creativity and excellence.
Morality has nothing to do with REALITY. But Platonic Surrealisms complex moral code “Try not to be an asshole” is used. I do see both of their points as a human being but NATURE and REALITY doesn’t give fuckola about morality.
In summary, Nietzsche’s critique of Plato was not driven by hatred, but rather by a deep-seated disagreement with many of the fundamental principles of Platonic philosophy.
Kevin Cann
11/24/2024