r argues that all of the Western tradition has legitimized itself based on myths, narratives, or fictions, despite claims that some kind of good or evil, some kind of absolute truths, can be known. Nietzsche most attacks Christianity as the reason why a revaluation of morality and ethics of classical Greek heroism were reduced to slave morality. Nietzsche argues that Christianity includes the concept of ressentiment, and in explaining the concept he provides us with two types of morality, master and slave. The slave mentality creates a binary world where there is “good” and “bad”, but the noble or master morality is able to go beyond good and evil:
How much respect has a noble person for his enemies…After all, he demands his enemy for himself, as his distinction; he can stand no enemy but one in whom there is nothing to be despised and much to be honored. Conversely, imagine ‘the enemy.’ ‘the evil one’-and indeed as the fundamental concept from which he then derives, as an afterimage and counterinstance, a ‘good one’ – himself.
Nietzsche did not believe there was any kind of science that would reveal “absolute truth”. Instead, he felt that all men of science, including philosophers, were under the spell of faith when it came even to science. It was this kind of mistaken notion Nietzsche tried to dispel when he pronounced the death of God “It is still a metaphysical faith that underlies our faith in science-and we men of knowledge of today, we godless men and anti-metaphysicians, we, too, still derive our flame from the fire ignited by a faith millennia old, the Christian faith, which was also Plato’s, that God is truth, that truth is divine” (Madison 2). In this argument, Nietzsche informs us that there is not more truth, reality, or even philosophy or science to guide us to “real” truths. If representational truth is doubted, everything is mere interpretation. The world is reduced to...