Abstract
Nietzsche's philosophy has its concern a reflection on the nature of life (Dasein). The nature of life becomes problematic since people has got used to a state of self-deception. What I am trying to do in this paper, first, is to follow the main theme of his book Human, All Too Human, and thus give an account of how Nietzsche see the influence of science on human being. As the latest but the most fruitful fruit of human being, Nietzsche thinks that science should carry a proper task: it can serve as a way through which we know ourselves. Morals and scientific knowledge, being but two results of human culture, due to human arrogance, have long been misunderstood. People have made themselves higher than they are and fundamentally different from the animals. Trying to free the more animal components from life, and then trying to convert themselves into some kind of moral man or scientific man, people think that they can thereby attain some kind of "progress". Nietzsche believes, however, that the genuine human progress lies rather in his deeper knowledge of himself and his clearer view of the actual situation of life. For a "knower", he should know that while one is living, one can never get rid of any part inherent in his life. According to Nietzsche, people has been put in fetters – their behavior and their spirit have been badly restricted – but all due to their own vanity and ignorance. Therefore, in order to be free, one has to be a knower, i.e. he has to eradicate any world view (Weltbetrachtung) that has once led people to a fettered life. In conclusion, I will show that in spite of his opposition of knowledge to vanity in the book, Nietzsche does not really oppose to any one of which. What Nietzsche has pointed out, however, is a higher knowledge. With this kind of knowledge, people no longer deny any single aspect of life.