Nietzsche says, "They felt unable to cope with the simplest undertakings; in this new world they no longer possessed their former guides, their regulatin, unconscious and infallible drives: they were reduced to thinking, inferring, reckoning, co-ordinating cause and effect...they were reduced to their 'consciousness,' their weakest and most fallible organ!...All instincts that do not discharge themselves outwardly turn inward...thus it was that man first developed what was later called his 'soul'" (84).

I interpreted this passage as a negative outlook on the human conscious and soul. Nietzsche sees these human qualitites as hinderences to the human existance. They make man unsure and unconfident. I found this ironic seeing as Socrates placed all emphasis on the importance of the soul. Plato discusses the soul in great length. Socrates believed the body is just an obstacle in the way of attaining truth and knowledge. Nietzsche and Socrates are philosphers with completely different views. Socrates sees the afterlife as the reason for existence. Nietzsche finds fault with faith, and encourages atheism and focus shifted away from the soul. Could both be right in different ways?