![]() Underlying Nietzsche's assault on philosophy is an iconoclastic temperament and sprit the disdain of a towering genius for the beaten path and a subtle ambition to displace his predecessors as the foremost philosopher in the Western tradition. Philosophers mostly serve to repackage ancient thoughts, and he points to "the strange resemblance of Indian, Greek, and German philosophizing" as evidence. ![]() No matter how proud philosophers are of their perspicuity, their originality, and their faculty for reasoning the moral structures they concoct are always derivative their source originating from "folk superstitions", "some play on words", or "a daring generalization from very limited, very personal, very human, all-too-human facts". ![]() ![]() Right from the beginning of the book Nietzsche takes a swing at all "philosophical dogmatizing", which he views as "nothing but the infantile high-mindedness of a beginner." In Nietzsche's view, philosophy is nothing more than an attempt by the verbally adept to propagandize everyone into adopting their moral views. The man was the philosophical equivalent of a sledgehammer, undermining not only traditional European moral paradigms and their Christian antecedents but the entire edifice of religious morality and philosophical moral theory which had taken several millennia and countless thinkers to develop and solidify. There are three kinds of non-conformists: skeptics, contrarians and independent thinkers. ![]()
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