Friedrich Nietzsche was a prominent German Philosopher and was considered one of the controversial and well-read philosophers of the 19th century. His ideas about nature and morality continue being subject of debate and are majorly discussed by scholars to date. Friedrich Nietzsche dwells a lot about the issues of morality; he presupposes subjective morality as well as atheism. He argues from naturalistic point of view on how humanity is wholly responsible for the control of passions provided by nature and how religion is considered as anti-nature. People, in many occasions, have been questioning whether morality should be considered an anti-nature issue. It is argued that moral pronouncements exist and hence human beings should preach and follow religious aspect of life. Friedrich Nietzsche points out that morality are considered as anti-nature. He considered laws and moral values are strategies used by the weak to dupe out the strong; he believes that morality is considered as the negative valuation of human life and often suppresses passion. According to him, morality as well as the will to power is the basic internal drive and it dictates human actions and thoughts. It is the instinctual need of the people to manifest power over nature and to immerse themselves on the belief that we should understand the world (Nietzsche 3). “Nietzsche considers the aesthetics of human beauty as they relate to power and warns us about the loss of power that results from degeneration” (Nietzsche 323).
Friedrich Nietzsche clarified the reasons why morality prohibits several points that should not be castrated; according to him, religious morality prohibits several types of sensuality and accepts instincts with evidence. In discussing morality as anti-nature, Nietzsche explained about the effectiveness and extensiveness of morality and religion and how it can change the equity of the nature of human being. People during that time have the belief that the church provides great directions in life. Nietzsche, however, disagrees with this. He instead, believes that adhering to religious principles amounts to ignoring the nature of humanity. According to him, human being is born naturally good and he proposes the church should not be followed since human beings can permit their passion to be presented in themselves based on their desires. From his writings, Nietzsche intends to inform their readers that as human beings can be able to exploit their potential by adhering to their passions and in ignoring the flawed ideals provided by the church in particular and religion in general (Bishop 327).
Under the church morality doctrine, the innate passion of its followers has to be abolished in order to make them become Christians proper. By demolishing the intrinsic inner passions of their followers and the church is doing a very big disfavor through the use of morality in ruling out nature from people’s life. When an individual starts to follow religious ideals, they will start being introduced with the doctrine of the free will idea. This free will concept has the claim that God is a powerful and an all righteous being and only the followers of religion have the ultimate duty for their actions. As human beings, we have a certain weakness in making big mistakes. It is at this point that every individual has a cause and effect; the church has a counterfactual causality that touches on the false perception and imaginary in the mind. People often have a tendency of jumping to ultimate and immediate conclusion hence giving credit to the higher being. According to Nietzsche, when events are not proved scientifically, church followers are considered to be naïve to give credit to the actions of God as opposed to searching for different answers. Christianity is considered as the enemy of human nature and life and the church has, therefore, castrated its followers as opposed to turning them into weak humans and close minded people. Nietzsche had the ultimate belief that religion creates anti-morality concept; this has the effect of damaging the development of human beings. This will eventually end the rights and status of individuals when the church gets involved (Nietzsche 3).
Nietzsche believes that the church is more often at war with the intelligent and passionate people and it favors the spirited and the poor. He believes that those people who start the spiritual and mental decapitation of other people who are truly unable to control and regulate their passion and are at times ill-willed. The people belonging to the church imposed morality as the anti-nature and are often unwilling to moderate their lives and be was of the belief that being an immorality as the ideal nature of a human being. This is because they are the people who understand their wrongs and their rights in their life by using the passion and their chosen lifestyle that concurs with their life.The ideals of Nietzsche on the issue that human beings should not rely on the guidance of the church and those human beings are born to be good individuals. Every individual who is healthy has morality that is guided by vital instinct. Anti-morality is considered as the direct opposite and precisely against the instincts. Morality as anti-nature is all about passions and that all passions have disastrous phases that drag down their nature of human being (Bishop 328).
Works Cited
Bishop, Paul. A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche: Life and Works. Rochester, N.Y: Camden House, 2012. Print.
Nietzsche, Friedrich W, and Friedrich W. Nietzsche. The Twilight of the Idols: And, the Antichrist. S.l.: Digireads.com, 2009. Print.
