Saint#
Summary#
Nietzsche examines the saint as an enigma that has fascinated the mightiest men throughout history. He argues that powerful individuals bowed before saints because they recognized in such extreme self-subjugation and voluntary privation a manifestation of will to power that they honored as akin to their own strength. The saint’s apparent miraculous transformation from bad to good man intrigued philosophers like Schopenhauer, though Nietzsche suggests this supposed miracle may be merely an error of moral interpretation.