At the risk that moralizing will here too prove to be what it has always been – namely an undismayed montrer ses plaies, as Balzac says – I should like to venture to combat a harmful and improper displacement of the order of rank between science and philosophy which is today, quite unnoticed and as if with a perfect good conscience, threatening to become established.
Noetzsche tries to understand why scholars of science look down upon philosophy these days? He is sad at the state of philosophy and says that, given how science is flourishing these days, and given the current state of philosophy, it is not doubt why men of science look down upon philosophy and philosophers
