In addition to the rejection of Christian Values, Nietzsche also rejected "secular values." Undoubtedly this rejection was closely related to his disdain for rules and his animosity for "the herd" in which term he referred to the masses of humanity.
Nietzsche's Rejection of Secular Values
• In addition, Nietzsche also criticizes secular values. This is true despite the fact that Nietzsche is generally known for and evaluated by his rejection of Christian values.
• According to Nietzsche secular values are to be rejected because these systems of morality are abstracted from particular cases and are made common. In other words, when secularity determines that the "right thing to do" is to be broadened into a general rule, as with Kant's Categorical Imperative in which Kant strives for a universal standard for morality, the result is that acts of morality are trivialized. Nietzsche rejected any such efforts to universalization of moral rules or maxims.
• For Nietzsche, every individual should be a law to himself, but it should also be said that by this conclusion Nietzsche does not mean that the individual is free from morality.
