1-1A. Strauss, Hume, and Nietzsche on Necessity of Study of the Prephilosophic; Terror as Matrix of Prephilosophic Society

According to Strauss... Nietzsche and Hume agree that the experience of fear or terror is the “original” primitive experience, they differ substantially on how early man responded to this experience. The matter of prephilosophic mind and religion is straightforward for Hume and in general for “English psychologists” because it has a basis in a rational, preservationist, utilitarian morality; but it is a complicated matter for Nietzsche... believes they on one hand do not go far enough in revealing the shameful, irrational, and even violent origins of morality.