Asceticism#
Summary#
Nietzsche presents asceticism as a valuable tool for racial and social advancement. In Beyond Good and Evil, he argues that asceticism and puritanism serve as nearly indispensable means for educating and ennobling a race that seeks to rise above its hereditary conditions and attain future supremacy. Religion offers the aspiring classes incentives to experience self-control, silence, and solitude, qualities that prepare them for positions of authority and command.