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Nietzsche himself rather contrasted himself with Socrates, but the boundary between Socrates and Plato is conditional.
Socrates/Plato believes in the existence of objective truths and goods that man can and must comprehend. Because of their objectivity, they are eternal and unchangeable, and only they are worth living.
Nietzsche believes that the existence of objective truth is a lie for salvation, a way to reconcile a person with a meaningless and irrational existence, a way that leads a person to death. According to Nietzsche, one must accept the meaninglessness of life and become a source of meaning for oneself, enjoy life in itself.
Strictly speaking, Nietzsche considered his opponent not Plato, but Socrates, who was the first to apply the dialectical method of argumentation, and therefore, according to Nietzsche, subordinated philosophy to grammar and thereby ended the “tragic era”. Philosophy after Socrates, according to Nietzsche, became bland, moralistic, obeying ready-made scenarios and treating about everyday behavior.
Nietzsche prophesied a “superman” – a self-sufficient, mature, independent individual who acts according to conscience and reason in the here and now: a classical anarchist, if you will.
Plato also derived the idea of a “super-city”, where the meaning of the very existence of a person is reduced to strengthening the integrity of the social organism, where the individual is blurred in the intrastate function.
That is, these are the antagonists-ultrantropos and infrantropos.
There is no conflict between Nietzsche and Plato. Nietzsche only shifts the emphasis in his philosophical work to something else. For what? Criticism of a language that generates meaning on its own. Including illusions. But the positive part of the philosophical work, unfortunately, Nietzsche did not have time to do (unlike Plato).