ABSTRACT
As was observed in the first chapter, Nietzsche has a good deal to say about previous thinkers and their views, but finds there to be little to be said for them, and indeed is strongly and sweepingly critical of them. This is so not only where issues relating to morality and value are concerned (as shall be seen in due course), but also with respect to the interpretation of the world's and our own fundamental natures. He considers it to be his task not only to attempt to develop accounts of them which do something approaching justice to them, but also to subject the sorts of accounts which have long enjoyed favor to critical analysis, thereby clearing and setting the stage for his own.
