the worst egoism. In spite of his will, he is irresistibly
pushed by his buoyancy towards the mystery of the "unknown God"; his "only
companion", his "big enemy', the "great liberator", the "Unutterable" for
whom the last flame of his soul if lighting up.
An other two aspects that are contradictory are his opinions regarding the
priests and the church. The saw the priest as an abject creature, the
falsest and most indecent" and on the other hand he placed on a high level
in his hierarchy of values of power the spiritual authority of the church.
Higher than the material power of the state. The edifice of the Church is
bearing on a southern freedom and liberality of the spirit. Nietzsche
says that one should not forget what a Church in opposition with any kind
of state represents:" a Church is most of all an edifice of domination that
provides the most intellectual people the superior rank and that believes
in the power of the intellectuals to the point of forbidding all the
violent means that are notoriously rude That's why Nietzsche considers the
Church a nobler institution than the state.
Son of a minister, Nietzsche preserves entirely the clearness, the
scruples, the exigencies of pureness and absolute from the Christian
conscience. The most profound part of his work, his critic of the ideal is
a genius exam of conscience. But, from a Christian this exam of the
conscience is depending on the absolute which he is never able to achieve,
Nietzsche, Christian without God, is pretending men to realize it by
themselves. He is rejecting any faith, regarding it as not worthy of a free
Therefore things like metaphysic and religion are becoming just normal
problems that psychology has to deal with.: there is only the man , he has
no father and no model in heaven, he is the supreme measure of any kind of
thing. The ideal has to be judged by man and not man by the ideal. But men
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