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The Dogmatists, Nietzsche argues, are a dying breed in philosophy. They were little better than con artists, using rhetoric and fear to force people to accept their narrow demands of what life ought to be. Humanity, specifically European society in the way Nietzsche is writing this, has largely shaken off these fraudulent modes of thought and opened itself to broader horizons, helping usher in a new era of thinking.