Another book against traditional morals by F.W. Nietzsche. This means a book against traditional religions and philosophy, as they have put forward a supposedly "real" world, accessible through reason or faith, as opposed to the "false" world offered by the senses.
This is a mystification. Morals tend to inhibit passion in order to avoid all possible negative consequences. The mistake lies in trying to extirpate passions rather then spiritualize them. Morals should help human life by removing any obstacles to happiness and free expression of natural instincts. Yet, they do exactly the opposite: they oppose life, instincts and the senses.
Morals tend to base their conclusions on a misinterpreted law of cause and effect. Humans are seen as responsible for what happens around them and to them. External circumstances and natural physiological tendencies are seen as caused by human error, which is labeled as sin. The sinner is thus placed in the hands of those who are in charge of the the moral code (i.e. the religious priests). And this, ladies and gentlemen, is obviously a tool meant to control the masses.
A book written by an "Immoral" for all the "Immorals". A book by a master thinker, the first one who dared oppose the right of powerful traditional institutions to exert power on people by pointing out flaws in their logical arguments, flaws that have been ignored for centuries by the most prominent thinkers of the Western world.
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