Nietzsche Morality As Anti-Nature Summary

Friedrich Nietzsche’s essay “Morality as Anti-Nature” speaks upon his views of Christianity, as well as German morales in the late 19th century. He first speaks upon passion, as well as the Christian response to it. Nietzsche states that all passion has some form of stupidity to it, speaking to how passion often overrules one’s better judgement. While he acknowledges this, he still believes that passion is a perfectly normal aspect of humanity and should be celebrated. He says that the Church’s response to it runs counter to human nature. Nietzsche explains that the church tries to remove all forms of passion except the form pertaining to the church itself. He says that individuals should rather focus on controlling passion, instead, saying

As a result, Nietzsche calls for the end of the idea that morality is mutually exclusive to religion, as believed to be at his time. Finally, he speaks upon how the Christian belief of free will is merely a result of society calling for a reason to punish people. He says that any human would do the same thing if they were in the same situation as another individual, so the concept of free will was created to push a facade of necessity for punishment. Nietzsche grew up in Germany in the mid 19th century. His father, a Lutheran minister died at a young age as a result of a hemorrhage of the brain. As a result, Friedrich was forced to be raised by only his mother, alongside the assistance of his aunt, and grandmother. The loss of his father at such a young age seemingly gave Nietzsche a negative view of the faith, as all of the goods works of his father was unable to save him. Nietzsche grew up receiving possibly the finest education in Germany at this time, primarily through the Renaissance approach of studying the classics. This may have led to his belief in the separation of church and morality, as many of the Ancient Greek philosophers spoke upon moral systems independent of religious belief. Nietzsche later