El Sócrates de Nietzsche

Abstract

The main object of this paper is an analysis of the critique against Socrates brought about by Nietzsche in Die Geburt der Tragödie. It claims that the central issue of this critique is the way in which Socrates and Plato considered the work of art. Hence it analyzes some of the consequences of the Socratic-platonic conception of art on the history of philosophy. Finally, the paper concludes that the Socrates created by Nietzsche as the result of his critique is actually a symbolization of the opposition between art and truth that philosophy has historically made.