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human
What did Nietzsche mean by “The criminal of criminals is consequently the philosopher” in The Antichrist?

The full quote is:

> Second proposition.

> - Any participation in church services is an attack on public morality. One should be harsher with Protestants than with Catholics, harsher with liberal Protestants than with orthodox ones. The criminality of being Christian increases with your proximity to science. The criminal of criminals is consequently the philosopher.

It comes in the end of Antichrist but apparently some copies don’t have this final chapter.
gpt
This snippet of reasoning relies for its meaning upon an unstated (and thus, implied) principle. This principle basically runs as follows: the extent of one's moral culpability with dogmatism is proportional to the degree to which one has been exposed to better information - in this case: a liberal, scientific education. He's using the word "criminal" here to be polemical (i.e. to rile up the reader).

In essence, Nietzsche is saying that educated people who ought to know better are especially blameworthy for the intellectual compromises they make. Since Nietzsche thought that most philosophers make these kind of compromises all the time (and since philosophers are very highly educated), he thinks they are especially vulnerable to this critique.