Socrates and Nietzsche?
He was quite angered with him cuzz Socrates once borrowed $50 from him and never returned them. Quite shameful really.
What did Nietzsche disagree with Socrates on?
I suspect part of the reason why Nietzsche was so upset with Socrates may have been from a certain feeling of kinship. If Socrates was as he has been portrayed, then he would have been a very clever fellow, and popular in spite of being a rebel. These are qualities I think Nietzsche would have liked. But the direction Socrates took these things were so contrary to Nietzsche's own views, that maybe in a sense it was like being betrayed by a friend. Take Socrates' death. Even when he was put on trial for corrupting the youth, he showed a kind of indifference to authority and wit that is respected to this day. He didn't grovel for mercy or offer insincere apologies, but threw down the gauntlet and all but dared Athens to do their worst. This is exactly the kind of style one might expect from one of Nietzsche's Ubermensch. The problem arises later... after being sentanced, Socrates just caves in. It's revealed that his APPARENT indifference is ACTUAL indifference. He truly doesn't care whether he dies and is willing to throw his life away to people he believes to be ignorant rather than escape. He bolsters a broken system instead of having the guts to tear it down and build a better one. In Nietzsche's parlance, he proves that he is a slave and marches meekly to his own death. That Socrates' tale echoes to this day is a testament to its influence. He was a millennial example of surrender instead of defiance. A real Ubermensch would have torn Athens apart for crossing him, not happily chug down their poisons. And societies that took Socrates example to heart could only become more weak, more servile, and less and less 'human' by Nietzsche's standards. The rationality Socrates showed was all well and good, but a human is not reason alone. For Nietzsche, WILL was paramount. Something Socrates chose to surrender for other, disagreeable ideals. Follow the link for another, longer, essay on the subject.