Plato s Meno And Nietzsche On Truth And Lie - 1720 Words

In Plato’s Meno and in Friedrich Nietzsche’s On Truth And Lie In An Extra-Moral Sense, both writers touch upon the theme of â€Å"truth† and â€Å"knowledge†. In Meno, Plato writes of a dialogue between his late mentor, Socrates and politician Meno. In the Meno dialogue, through a dialectical method, Socrates’s manages to prove to Meno he knows nothing of virtue while On Truth And Lie In An Extra-Moral Sense, Nietzsche analyzes how language isn’t â€Å"truth† and Knowledge is an invention as a means of survival. Socrates or rather Plato are more rational whereas Nietzsche is more intuitive. Nietzsche believes that humans use â€Å"truth† as a means of power over the lesser. They do it because they feel like they have a reason to exist. He also explains how the universe existed before mankind and will exist after it. He mentions that the philosopher as the proudest man of them all who stands in the center of the universe. Nietzsc he doesn’t believe language is truth. He thinks the genesis of language was born out of a nerve stimulus. It is through a metaphorical process that creates language. Later the brain begins to categorize it into different categories and concepts and rejects anything other than what is in the category as a â€Å"lie†. This in Nietzsche mind makes no sense because the language itself is man-made so how can it be a lie? From here we have created a metaphor to the notion of a stimuli that can vary among people. This makes language subjective. The metaphorical process is physical