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what if the very pillars of western
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thought were built on a lie friedrich
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Nichze with his thunderous pros and
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unapologetic intellect dared to ask that
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question and more importantly dared to
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answer it in his eyes the legacy of
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Plato wasn't a triumph of philosophy but
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a centuries old illusion that had
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weakened the human spirit plato taught
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that the world we see is just a shadow
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of a higher perfect reality the world of
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forms for him truth lived in the
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abstract not in the flesh and blood
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life this notion Nze argued was the
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beginning of a dangerous path it
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devalued the real world glorified
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suffering and paved the way for a
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morality that prized weakness over
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strength denial over affirmation and
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submission over freedom that nature's
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rebellion against platinism wasn't just
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theoretical it was personal
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he believed that by separating the world
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into appearance and reality Plato and
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his philosophical descendants turned
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life into something to be endured rather
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celebrated nze called for a revaluation
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values instead of chasing unreachable
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ideals he urged humanity to embrace life
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in all its mess pain and beauty at the
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heart of this critique lies his concept
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affirmation nze wanted to free us from
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the guiltladen morality rooted in other
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hopes he saw in platinism the root of
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Christianity's disdain for earthly
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pleasures and in turn the origin of a
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worldview that stifled vitality and
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individual greatness for Nietze true
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wisdom didn't come from escaping reality
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it came from diving into it his ideal
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was not the passive philosopher dreaming
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of pure forms but the creator of values
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the one who shapes life according to
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instinct this is why he praised the
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ancient Greeks before Plato and why he
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urged modern thinkers to break free from
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Plato's shadow today Nichze's challenge
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urgent in a world still haunted by the
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dualisms he fought against body and soul
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good and evil real and ideal his voice
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everything to ask not just what is true
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but what kind of truth makes us more
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alive so do you think Nicho was right to
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tear down Plato's legacy or did he miss
