Democratic instincts#
Summary#
Nietzsche uses “democratic instincts” to criticize the modern tendency to project egalitarian values onto nature itself. When physicists speak of “Nature’s conformity to law” and “equality before the law,” they are not describing objective reality but rather disguising their antagonism to everything privileged and autocratic. This represents a form of “refined atheism” that replaces God with the democratic motto “Ni dieu, ni maître” while claiming scientific neutrality.