Why Nietzsche believes morality becomes problematic
...armful or dangerous in some way, and that science and our ‘will to truth’ can somehow protect us from this danger. However Nietzsche objects to this when he asks how can we be sure that we would not be less harmed by being deceived than if we weren’t deceived. Nietzsche then goes on to explain that why would it be better to ‘not deceive’ as it is stated in our will to truth, especially when life itself is full of ‘semblance, meaning error, deception, simulation and delusion’. He therefore thinks that in a way our ‘will to truth’ is ‘hostile’ or ‘destructive’ to life. This is what Nietzsche means when he describes our innate ‘will to truth’ as a concealed ‘will to death’. It is here that Nietzsche asks another fundamental question ‘why have morality at all when it appears that life itself is not moral?’. This essentially is the reason why Nietzsche finds morality to be a problem. Morality needs our ‘will to truth’. Nietzsche also goes on to explain that morality has no value. For the people that rely on morality are ‘weak’ and are generally not good for anything. He states that we must be passionate about our problems and that only the strong personalities who have enough self-knowledge can do this, those of a moral/weak nature simply cannot. Essentially, he believes that morals are human creations imparted onto us by the ‘herd’. Nietzsche also has strong beliefs and philosophies on the future of morality. Nietzsche believes that humans clothe ourselves in moral “concepts of decency” such as “duty, virtue and self denial” and yet these concepts fa...