Both Friedrich Nietzsche and Matthew Arnold condemned the ideals of their middleclass contemporaries. Nietzsche used his emergent example of asceticism to relay the essential evils that lie in the theology of his colleagues. Arnold manipulated his definitions of the classes to censure the tribulations he sought to contest. Together, in different writings to different societies, they illuminated attitudes that would be the root of what they thought to be the problem.
             In the third essay in On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche questions ascetic ideals. He begins by discussing the meaning to philosophers. He decides that philosophers can achieve their best work in isolation. This takes them out of a social environment and almost places them at the beginning, where they can discover their own origins. The bulk of Nietzsche's psychological theory focuses on origins. His definition of "perspectivism" helps us understand his writing. Because we commonly assume that ideas are just ideas, we miss the true meaning. This "perspectivism" shows the reader that there is not only one truth, but also different perspectives that we can use to understand the same idea. Nietzsche uses this to understand everything. If we want to appreciate and understand something, we cannot only think of it in terms that we know, but try and understand its previous meanings. Often they are contrary to what we now believe. He points to the fact that most great philosophers !
             were not married, taking distractions of married life away. He proposes that most philosophers lived with ascetic ideals. He believes that living with these ideals, as a philosopher, is not a denial or contradiction to life, but an assertion of life. It helps the philosopher emphasize their power. Nietzsche believes that without meaning or a will to power people will die. It is the fundamental drive in life.
             Nietzsche uses the examples of Wagner and Schopenhauer (two...