The present text seeks to deconstruct the commonplace that Plato would be once and for all Nietzsche's chief adversary. In analysing the route of nietzschean thinking, we'll see that the philosopher, since his youth, and with the progressive aid of the physiological and psychological analysis as a tool, never confused Platonism with Plato as a man and legislator, receiving from him even the decisive influence to the "Great Politics" project. Parallel to this, we'll have that, despite considering himself as the sole critical heir of the Greek philosopher, reputed as a creator of new values, there are in fact some differences in the political projects of both philosophers, notably in the finishing period of nietzschean reflection, with the eternal recurrence of the same and the reading of the Manu's Code of Law.
Nietzsche; Plato; politics; critical reception; Great Politics; Manu's Code of Law