- 25/02/2013
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Friedrich Nietzsche is probably one of the most contradictory philosophers of the Modern Era, but it goes without saying that his contribution in the number of philosophical questions and explanation.
Speaking about his essay “Morality Is Anti-Nature” I would like to make a stress on the fact that the author provides strong and supportive evidence to the fact that the question of morality has certain demands to the individuals. It demanding to refuse from certain essential needs such as passion: “Anti-natural morality — that is, almost every morality which has so far been taught, revered, and preached — turns, conversely, against the instincts of life: it is condemnation of these instincts, now secret, now outspoken and impudent. When it says, “God looks at the heart,” it says No to both the lowest and the highest desires of life, and posits God as the enemy of life. The saint in whom God delights is the ideal eunuch. Life has come to an end where the “kingdom of God” begins” (Nietzsche, 1895). It would be essential to note that this quotation perfectly illustrates whom Nietzsche considered to be the core propagandist of the Anti-Natural Morality.
Everyone of us could hardly disagree to the author’s supportive evidence and personally I agree to the ideas he provided in his essay: “Let us finally consider how naive it is altogether to say: “Man ought to be such and such!” Reality shows us an enchanting wealth of types, the abundance of a lavish play and change of forms — and some wretched loafer of a moralist comments: “No! Man ought to be different.” He even knows what man should be like, this wretched bigot and prig: he paints himself on the wall and comments, “Ecce homo!” But even when the moralist addresses himself only to the single human being and says to him, “You ought to be such and such!” he does not cease to make himself ridiculous!” (Nietzsche, 1895). For me it means that I could make my way personally and do not use norms provided by church in critical evaluation of the morality question.
The norms of morality went far beyond the church levels and I could personally decide what is good and what is evil. I understand the necessity of science and physiological processes, which could be regarded as immoral from the church point of view. Nietzsche’s thoughts and ideas are the propaganda of so called “freedom of will”. I think he meant that humanity has developed so far that it does not already needs an institution such as church (Erica Mena). We learn ourselves how to live and what is good and what is not, we have already grown up higher than the institution is and everyone of us could have different system of evaluation. We have different opinion on the different subjects it has become norm of our life we have gone far from the norms of dogmatic morality of the church which oppressed people by certain rules and norms that did not correspond to the norms of life.
Taking into consideration opinions of my mates I would like to make a stress that their opinion could be a perfect illustration of the Nietzsche’s theory, individualist theory. All the ideas provided by them are different but have one in common; we do not need oppressive norms, rules and dogmas anymore. We have growth up and went much more father than the institution dictating the norms of morality especially observing the fact that some of them confront to the essential needs of everyone of us. These dogmatic moralities confronts to the physiological and psychological needs of contemporary individual. Nietzsche calls those who reject the understanding and perception of dogmatic morality – immoralists and my mates agree with him and so do I as the reduce of the set norms was considered to be immoral. Hence I could hardly agree to the fact of immorality in the present day world. The attitude to the subject has changes as Nietzsche predicted. The number of “immoralists” has grown so far that they provide personal view and understanding of such contradictory question of morality. Someone could say that Nietzsche’s ideas are not already acute, but I could not agree with this statement as the basis of contemporary norms of morality and attitude to the question of dogmatic morality of church was formed due to the Nietzsche’s reducing to the oppressive influence of the church on morality question and its denying of the essential parts of human life calling them immoral.
My personal thoughts perfectly correspond to the ideas provided by the essay “Morality Is Anti-Nature” and the thoughts of my mates. I think that I could personally decide and understand the life without direct guidance from any institution, church would be a good example as Nietzsche in his work relates the church in particular. Hence I think it would be essential to note that church in the present days have already become less oppressive than at Nietzsche’s.
References:
Friedrich Nietzsche (1895). Die Götzen-Dämmerung – Twilight of the Idols. Retrieved March 10, 2010 from Handprint official web site
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