Similarities Between Plato And Nietzsche

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Truth is a concept that Plato choose to believe it as a universal idea, Nietzsche choose to consider it as an agreed upon lie, and Cixous wants to make it possible for more than one truth to exist. Nietzsche and Cixous are somewhat on the same page when talking about the truth. However Plato is against Nietzsche’s idea, and believes that women fall under the neutral category of man, but Cixous wants that difference. Moreover, Nietzsche affirms that there is no truth until the society believes it, but Plato thinks there is only one truth, the forms. Cixous agrees with Nietzsche and so tries creating a truth for women in the society. Since Nietzsche and Cixous have slightly similar understanding on truth, their thinking on different types of …show more content…

Plato believes that the truth comes from the forms, and is a fixed idea that cannot be changed. He suggests that the Forms are the only true objects that can provide individuals with a knowledge of the truth: they are universal and go beyond human experience. The only way to look and learn from the forms is to die because it is a journey for the souls. A person, who has lived a life of honor and shame will see the forms more closely as compared to the one who lived a life of insolence, and thus will know the greater truth depending on the life they live. However, Nietzsche comments that if the way to find the truth is to die, then basically the truth is dead, which indirectly means that truth does not exist. Nietzsche says, “The pride connected with knowing and sensing lies like a blinding fog over the eyes and senses of men, thus deceiving them concerning the value of existence. (Nietzsche: On truth and lies, pg. 53). By this he means that if we chooses to follow the already defined path, it is like fog that covers the senses and the eyes of a man, which interrupts our mental processing to be able to think differently. Since Nietzsche believes that there is no real truth he want individuals to be creative, and not consider the fixed idea as the real truth. Plato disagrees because he believes in the theory of recollection and so presumes that souls learn everything from the past experiences and forgets details over it transmission from one body to another. For Plato, remembering is like recalling the truth from our past

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