Nietzsche, Morality, and Hypochondria

For Nietzsche, traditional Morality is a medical problem, requiring careful diagnosis, and an effective cure. For example, he regards the Christian Morality of his time as a promotion of the sharing of suffering, under the rubric 'Pity', in the service of its advocacy of a 'better', non-physical realm, i. e. Heaven. But, on Nietzsche's analysis, the latter is a fictitious application, by what Nietzsche calls 'Platonism for the people, of Plato's 'World of Ideas'. Hence, the mediate cause of the pervasive suffering of his day is Platonic dualism, which entails a precursor to Christianity's denigration of physical reality in the name of a Nothingness. However, it is not dualism, per se, that is at the root of that denigration, but, more precisely Plato's ontologizing of dualistic Morality, the historical source of which is none other than Zoroaster, aka, Zarathustra, to whom Nietzsche's character is a deliberate contrast. But, the ontologizing of Morality, i. e. that the universe is inherently a battleground of Good vs. Evil, is ultimately the promotion of a fiction. In other words, the suffering that goes under the name of 'Morality' is Hypochondria. Agreement with this etiology comes from an unexpected source--a Biblical passage that is as well-known as it is usually misinterpreted. The nakedness that Adam and Eve, upon eating from the 'tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil', with shame, is not at all offensive to God, thereby exhibiting that the Moral tradition that their shame breeds is fundamentally illusory, and its attendent suffering, is fundamentallyHypochondria. The diagnostic difficulty with Hypoch0ndria is that the actual suffering that it causes is untraceable to the imagined disease. Hence, Nietzsche's analyses are necessarily convoluted, and his antidote, the governing of Conduct by Will to Power, is generally interpreted from the perspective of the imagined disease, leaving its relevance and potential efficacy unrecognizable. So, while Nietzsche often describes himself as philosophizing 'with a hammer', he just as often proves himself to be the most delicate of surgeons.