ABSTRACT
Kantians can make up their moral psychology from their sanctimonious armchairs, invoking an interest only in the concept or possibility of moral motivation, but naturalists actually care about how human beings really work. When he devotes an entire chapter of Twilight of the Idols to what he calls the four great errors, errors that almost entirely concern causation confusing cause and effect, the error of false causation, the error of imaginary causes he calls them- it is clear that he wants to distinguish genuine causal relations from the mistaken ones that infect religious and moral thinking. When he returns to the same theme in The Antichrist, he again denounces Christianity for trafficking in imaginary causes and for propounding an imaginary natural science, one that depends on anthropocentric concepts and lacks, as Nietzsche puts it, any concept of natural cause science consisting, on his account, of the healthy concepts of cause and effect.
