Epistemological skepticism#
Summary#
Nietzsche characterizes modern philosophy since Descartes as epistemological skepticism, describing it as an attack on the old conception of the soul disguised as criticism of subject-predicate relations. This skepticism is secretly or openly anti-Christian, though not necessarily anti-religious, as it undermines the fundamental presupposition of Christian doctrine by questioning whether the “I” is truly the condition of thinking or merely a synthesis made by thinking itself.