When the majority of us think about Plato's philosophy, we think about his “philosopher kings” and his “world of ideas”. Still, when we start the discussion where Plato went wrong, and approach it from the position of Nietzsche, it feels like the biggest issue that stayed afterwards was “the world of ideas”. As Plato's philosophy is meant to function as a whole, for me the question arises: what happens to “philosopher kings” and people living in Republic in general? Did Nietzsche in some sense offer us his update on this topic in Thus spoke Zarathustra or did he never look at consequences to Plato's system after rejecting his core “dualist” concept?
In this work, I would like to explore this topic by first presenting Nietzsche's thoughts from The birth of Tragedy and Twilight of the Idols as well as presenting basic concepts by Plato, showcased in his book The Republic. After doing so, I would like to showcase how would the three societal levels of The Republic be affected in case there wasn't any “world of ideas”, just so I can, in the end, make a comparison of the results with what Nietzsche presents in Thus spoke Zarathustra.
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