Nietzsche 2nd Essay Sections 11-25

In Nietzsche's final sections he tries to wrap up his arguments. His main thesis seems to be the idea of the will to power. He speaks about justice, that it is "quite senseless to talk about it in itself" because "'just' and 'unjust' exist, accordingly only after the institution of the law". He then talks about how punishment is "supposed to possess the value of awakening the feeling of guilt." Criminals do not have this feeling of guilt which allows then to do what they want. This is tied to the "instinct for freedom" or in Nietzsche's language: "the will to power". To me, here Nietzsche confirms finally that he is a skeptic. The only feeling that should compel human action should be self-interest. Feelings of self-denial are unnatural and are "tied to cruelty". In the final sections he criticizes the Christian and Greek gods. The Christian god "was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth." God is just a form of social control while the Greek gods were "reflections of noble and autocratic men, in whom the animal in man felt deified and id not lacerate itself, did not rage against itself." The Greek god represented the true human nature. I think Nietzsche makes some good observations but I would like to critique two points. Firstly even though his argument that our morality is based on guilt, and that our true human nature is that of animal-like competition, I believe it also makes for a difficult society to live in. Humans are much more efficient when working together as opposed to doing everything on their own. For cooperation to work there has to be some kind of self-denial. Second;y, I agree that the Greek gods were reflections of how humans are, but I argue that it wasn't the gods who people wanted to emulate, it was the heroes. The men like Aeneas, Heralcles, Perseus, were self-sacrificing men who often were at odds with the gods.