Nietzsche vs. Plato
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Nietzsche said that Plato was “the greatest enemy of art Europe has yet produced.”
This Plato spoke in imagery so far
Removed from Heidegger that Plato seems
An artist and a poet. How bizarre
This glows is true to us as cordial beams
Of perfect light admitted to a cave,
Like pretty Mozart music played in crass
Despair might resonate in shadows, stave
Off blackness, and relieve from Philip Glass.
Just being here is not enough for some,
Like Plato. Poets capturing the truth
Of all that is most lovely overcome
Our senses like a perfect body’s youth.
..That imagery is what Platonic thought
….Most hates. It loathes mere being. It loves Ought.