Faith and Knowledge#
Summary#
Nietzsche reframes the old theological problem of “Faith” and “Knowledge” as fundamentally a question of instinct versus reason—whether instinct deserves more authority than rationality in the valuation of things. Since Socrates, who sided with reason yet secretly recognized its limits, and through Plato who tried to harmonize both toward “the good,” philosophers and theologians have followed a path where instinct (or “Faith,” or “the herd”) has ultimately triumphed over pure reason.