Nietzsche on Intellectual Virtue. From Plato's Legacy to Overcoming Platonism
(2021) Nietzsche and Plato — accepted/in-press
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Bertot, Clément 
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- Plato’s Philosophy is an intellectualism that calls into question the virtue of science, whereby one’s morality is conditioned by one’s perfect knowledge. In contrast, Nietzsche sheds light on the operations of the mind and wonders how to reach perfection within philosophical thinking. This entails asserting, against Plato, that virtue is not to be reduced to the study of morals. Despite their chronological distance, it is necessary to reconstruct the conceptual dialogue between Nietzsche and Plato. The purpose of our article is to demonstrate that Plato remains Nietzsche’s main opponent as he develops his own concept of the “virtue of the mind”, in the form of intellectual probity. It is the concern to transcend Plato’s moralism that guides Nietzsche as he looks to maintain the concept of virtue within the philosophical domain.
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Bertot, C. (2021). Nietzsche on Intellectual Virtue. From Plato’s Legacy to Overcoming Platonism. In José Emilio Esteban and Begoña Ramón (ed.), Nietzsche and Plato. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/123051