# Chapter 112 explained — Beyond Good and Evil

> Chapter companion for Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche.

## What happens

The narrator contrasts the solitary, contemplative individual with the noisy, intrusive nature of believers, asserting the need for the former to protect their intellectual space.

## Themes in this chapter

### The Philosopher of the Future

Describes the solitary, contemplative nature required of the new philosopher, who must guard against the 'noisy' dogma of believers.

### The Role of Religion

Implies a critique of religious belief as 'noisy and obtrusive,' an active force that the contemplative mind must resist.

## Character check-ins

### The Narrator

Articulates the perspective of one 'preordained to contemplation,' defining a stance against the intrusiveness of belief.

## Key lines

> To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.

The person destined for deep thought, rather than faith, finds all religious believers disruptively loud and must actively shield themselves.

_Establishes a fundamental opposition between the contemplative philosopher and the communal believer._

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