Life or Anti-Life: Nietzsche v

Life or Anti-Life: Nietzsche vs Socrates Nietzsche’s charge that Socrates is anti-life appears to be driven merely by disgust and not proven by fact. I say this mainly because the majority of Nietzsche’s accusations in “The Problem of Socrates” were either negative statements against Socrates physical appearance or inaccurate accounts that he possibly just misunderstood. Therefore, with Nietzsche’s invalid charges we can not consider Socrates anti-life. One of Nietzsche’s first mistakes …

…Life for Socrates was philosophy and in return philosophy added meaning to his life. Is it living to live life without meaning, or is it death? Socrates chose to live life as he desired. Nietzsche’s accusation that Socrates is anti-life is untrue and inaccurate. Just because Socrates took a stand for what he believed in and was willing to face danger without a thought for death or anything else, does not make him anti-life.