Comparing Aquinas, And Nietzsche's Point Of View

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But then again, while Nietzsche’s point of view does ring truth, so does Aquinas’s. Aquinas never said that because beings have Natural Law they inherently follow it, he simply just states that it is there. Just because someone knows of right and wrong, doesn’t necessarily mean that the person will follow it, which holds its own against Nietzsche’s argument. Even the opinion of truth itself is vastly different for each man. Aquinas logically states that truth is a reflection of reality, and Nietzsche disagrees, saying that truth is really all dependant on reality. For instance, the Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant. Each blind man feels a different part of the elephant to guess what animal it is, and depending on what part of the body