Homines religiosi#
Summary#
Nietzsche invokes homines religiosi as a class of souls whose inner experience with knowledge and conscience presents a special challenge for psychological investigation. To understand the history of these problems in religious souls, one would need to possess the profound, bruised, and immense experience of a figure like Pascal, combined with a clear, wicked spirituality capable of arranging such dangerous material. The religious man represents a depth of psychological complexity that ordinary scholarly methods cannot penetrate.