Journal of Nietzsche Studies 45 (1):12-21. 2014 The familiar, clichéd picture is this: Nietzsche, the antimetaphysician, versus Plato, the metaphysician. But in The Soul of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick portray the two thinkers as contestants in the same arena, that of psychology, the theory of the soul. In Beyond Good and Evil 268, Nietzsche makes a statement with which Plato would wholeheartedly agree: “A person’s valuations reveal something about the structure of his soul.”1 Clark and Dudrick also agree: for them “the central notion of BGE One [the Preface and Part I] is the soul” (176) and “[p]hilosophical psychology can ascertain the truth about the soul only by acknowledging values as constitutional” (135). They ..(direct link)