Dialectics: Nietzsche vs Socrates

It is well-known that Nietzsche hated Socrates—there is a whole chapter in Twilight of the Idols, one of Nietzsche’s books, about this, called “The Problem of Socrates.” In this chapter, Nietzsche calls Socrates, among other things, ugly, and questions whether Socrates was even a real Greek. He says that Socrates is anti-Greek, and represents the decay …