How Did Nietzsche Become A Man Of Culture
If we apply this scheme to Nietzsche's text, we can easily let the ironic question underlying it emerge. Simply, we have to substitute "Christian" with "man of culture", and the equation will remain the same. While Nietzsche is not criticizing the aim of becoming a man of culture, he is very hostile with the way German society expects people to pursue this ideal. Once again, he is critical of the way the social practices of his time make shape this ideal. Hence, it is not a lack of commitment what he is pointing at with his attack on Strauss' work, but rather to a misdirection in the German understanding of what culture is. Accordingly, by criticizing the exemplar of this misdirected way of becoming a man of culture, Nietzsche is attempting