the climax of BT comes in §§11-15 of the book, where Nietzsche produces his account of how Socratism, a recurring phenomenon which has its purest expression in the figure after whom it is named, destroyed tragedy and set up the millennia-long belief in progress through reason, the monstrous equivalence of the true, the good and the beautiful, and the possibility of a total understanding and thus control of the world and of our own destinies.
