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The tenets of Christianity have been built on a foundation derived, to a large part, from the philosophies of Plato. Nietzsche was vehemently opposed to Christianity, and by extension, to Plato's most basic of ideas. He thought that the emphasis on the transcendental nature depreciated the value of corporeal life and the innate potentials of man. Plato felt that the striving for perfection in man was directly attributable to the a priori nature of both ideas and moral 'good'. This 4 page paper sets the two philosophers and their philosophies in debate. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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and unchangeable; an object, not of sense or imagination, but of rational cognition. It is the only reality, perfection and harbinger of all knowledge. This is God.
The idea of "beyond knowing and being" is the absolute transcendence of God. Mans imagination is capable of recognizing and defining such concepts and must, therefore, be within the
nature of Being. In The Gay Science, Nietzsche gives a playful description of his perspective on knowledge: "Appearance for me is life and effectivity itself. It goes so
far in its self-mockery that it makes me feel that it is nothing more than appearance, and will-o-the-wisp and a dance of spirits - that among all of these dreamers,
also I the one who knows [that I am dreaming], dance my dance, the one who knows is a means for prolonging the earthly dance and thus belongs to the
masters of ceremony of existence, and the sublime consistency and interrelatedness of all knowledge perhaps is and will be the highest means to preserve the universality of dreaming and the
mutual comprehension of all dreamers and thus the continuation of the dream" (116). In Platos theory of reminiscence, the soul brought with it into this earthly life the
concept of beauty, and or, justice. To be able to re-cognize these, one must have the memory of the idea which in an intellectual vision it had seen in
the transcendental world, a reminiscence of the points of representation. In order to accept this theory, there must be a belief in a pre-existence of the soul. The
soul brings memories of the ideal and an affinity for it. The memories are called into consciousness by the memories of the senses and the emotions. This
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