European race#
Summary#
Nietzsche uses this term to describe the collective human type that has developed in Europe under the influence of Christianity. He argues that the Church’s systematic preservation of the weak and suffering, combined with its inversion of values that cast suspicion on strength and earthly mastery, has worked toward the “deterioration of the European race.” The result, in his view, is a diminished, mediocre species: “a gregarious animal, something obliging, sickly, mediocre, the European of the present day.”