Metaphysicians#
Summary#
Nietzsche identifies the fundamental belief of metaphysicians as the belief in the antithesis of values, assuming that things of highest value must originate from a separate, transcendent source rather than from their apparent opposites. This mode of reasoning, which places truth in the “Thing-in-itself” or the “concealed God,” reveals a prejudice that shapes all metaphysical valuation. Nietzsche suggests these popular valuations may be merely superficial estimates or “frog perspectives,” and that the value of good things might consist precisely in their insidious relation to what appears evil.