Why did Nietzsche criticize Plato and other philosophers?

The Christians took Plato and substituted Heaven/God for mathematics and what was an attempt to get "beyond the human." Nietzsche said that Plato planned this. For the next thousand years (or so) we become oriented towards God, Catholicism, etc. and you have the rise of the Eastern and Western Empires. read more

The Christians took Plato and substituted Heaven/God for mathematics and what was an attempt to get "beyond the human." Nietzsche said that Plato planned this. read more

Nietzsche, I think, was supremely a moralist; which is why the attacks on Christianity & Socrates - and a series of books in a prophetic mode; compare with Blakes prophetic books; its just that both didn't care for the conventional morality of the time. read more