Because of the centrality of God in his philosophy, Thomas Aquinas is dismissed as an “idol” in Friedrich Nietzsche's project. Aquinas, according to Nietzsche, builds his explanation of truth on religious assumptions where "the effect of what is believed to be true is mistaken for truth" and therefore "falls entirely within the psychology of error" (Nietzsche). Aquinas treats religious doctrines as if they were outside the jurisdiction of reason. For Nietzsche, Aquinas mistakenly presents a worldview that is neither objective nor amenable to scientific analysis. These initial problems with Aquinas's vision noted by Nietzsche lead to contradictions in his positions. Nietzsche calls for a reevaluation of all values, even after having stated that we cannot perceive or know a phenomenon from the "external" from an objective position, he raises the problem of doing so in his work. Thus, his philosophy ultimately becomes relativism or contradiction. For Nietzsche's system to escape contradiction, it must admit relativism, construct a new epistemology, or recognize the same premises on which systems like Aquinas' are built. Thus Nietzsche enters into competition with other systems and validates the possibility of the correctness of some other position. Aquinas takes the position of affirming a single and objective standard of truth and law, the truth of judgment as well as the truth of the person, on which it is based, the deepest truth which, according to the Bible, is God: «I am the way, the truth and the life" (Jn 14:6). Although Aquinas does not argue that complete truth is disclosed through reason alone, he does argue that humans can discover natural law through practical reason. Those who are able to re...... middle of paper ......ns, lose validity in his criticism of objective thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas. The inherent contradictions of his arguments undermine his own assertions and do nothing to diminish the validity of objective truth claims. Again this is not to agree with Aquinas, but to point out that Nietzsche is still working in a correspondence system to disprove the correspondence theory of truth. Nietzsche's main contribution to ethical theory is the realization that we no longer truly believe in God, that we must face the consequences of this moral and spiritual gap in our lives and look for something to replace Him. His writings contain criticisms of these new replacements such as skepticism, nihilism, feminism, democracy, utilitarianism and scientific positivism, but these criticisms I do not believe justify the demarcation of "false" by Nietzsche's standards..