ABSTRACT
Nietzsche called himself as an immoralist. He saw the movement of his thinking as running precisely contrary to the sort of thinking that was generally considered, at the time when he wrote, as "morar". Nietzsche's immoralism was grounded in his feeling that only an immoralism could represent the truth about morality – that immoralistic thinking is the only kind of thinking that can do justice to the truth about the human ethos. A narrower reading of the term "immoralist" has, however, led some to assert that Nietzsche must have rejected all moral standards and moral aims – that is, he was a nihilist with respect to morality. The more powerful the encounter, the greater the test, and the greater will be the manifestation of power within the self when it meets the test – and thus, the greater will be its praiseworthiness for Nietzschean morality.
