Nietzsche On Hypocrisy

Nietzsche believed that to be moralistic is to be hypocritical. The textbook defines moralistic as, “Expressing commonplace moral sentiments that conflict with one’s behavior and equating moral sentimentality with virtuous living; a form of hypocrisy that resembles a reaction formation,” (Soccio 16-5). Basically what Nietzsche was saying is that what our culture believes is morally right is not what people actually want. “In Nietzsche’s view, modernity is anti-life and anti-nature, and modern, Christianized moralities are symptoms of the decadence, this decay,” (Soccio 16-5). What he was trying to say was that modern morals reduced the great passions for living. Reaction formation is the name of the freudian ego defense mechanism who's purpose