Aristocracy: Plato vs Nietzsche

What we can learn from the two philosophers’ competing political visions

Plato is one of the few philosophers more famous and influential than Nietzsche, and his political theory is also in favor of aristocracy. But Plato’s political vision was of an intellectual aristocracy, a dry, formal, meritocratic, and technocratic totalitarianism, while Nietzsche’s is one that would be legitimated by the qualitative, non-rational, cul…