Nietzsche & Arnold

Both Friedrich Nietzsche and Matthew Arnold condemned the ideals of their middleclass contemporaries. Nietzsche used his emergent example of asceticism to relay the essential evils that lie in the theology of his colleagues. Arnold manipulated his definitions of the classes to censure the tribulations he sought to contest. Together, in different writings to different societies, they illuminated attitudes that would be the root of what they thought to be the problem. In the third essay …

…be strong. If not, we turn back and regress cultural progress. Both authors detest the majority of their contemporary middleclass and illustrate this point through definitions. For Nietzsche, he uses the ascetic priest as a vehicle to move onto the topic of nihilism. Arnold uses the broad topics of culture and class to point out what he finds to be the chief obstruction in their misapprehension in what he believes to be true. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**