Nietzsche's Legacy

Nietzsche sees himself as a modern gadfly, sent to provoke the ideologies of his times, much like the great Socrates of his time. However, the fact that Socrates legacy paradoxically has become the unquestioned doxa of the West. Nietzsche elaborates that there is a problem with men like Socrates; that, “Throughout the ages the wisest men have passed the same judgment on life: it is no good…” (NR). He concludes that the legacy of Socrates, Platonism, Christianity, Augustine, and Simon Weil are being life denying pessimists who agree would agree with Socrates that, “Life is one long illness.” (NR).
The only other philosopher that Nietzsche respects is Heraclitus, who is was also a gadfly of his time. His process ontology, where, “we are wrong to speak of them as “being,” for none of them ever is; there are always becoming.” (PR). This view of reality supports the idea that there is a unity of

“Even when expresses things that [she] believes, he is literally intolerable to [her]” (Simone Weil Handout, passage #1). She acknowledges that opposing forces such as madness and joy must exist in this world and all men must endure them both. These rules and forces of necessity she defines as Gravity in which, “all natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity.” (Simone Weil Handout, passage #2). However, the human soul is not and cannot be induced with sadness and happiness at the same time, because the human soul only has a static ontology in respect to time; “madness is essentially the total privation of joy…” (Simone Weil Handout, passage #1), where the unjust only exist because of the just, but can only exist when there is a lack of the just. The just’s interruption of the presence of the unjust is what she refers to as Grace. This is a supernatural intervention that liberates humans from the oppressive forces of nature and