'Naturalism', like all shoulder-shrugging pieces of non-philosophy, appeals to something that is 'given' as a bare fact, in order to exclaim "this is how things are at bottom! So do not probe anymore!" Appeal to nature is always an appeal to fact on this account. 'Nature' or 'natural' means precisely that which invites no further criticism - Nature as this domain of innocence where something is what it appears to be; the angels of heaven are thus domesticated and brought down to the level of farmers and peasants.
A case study of the 'ascetic priest', as someone who is a master of instincts, but who nevertheless chooses to shepherd the herd, the case study of the possibility of this ambiguous type would bring about the ultimate refutation of such naturalist readings of Nietzsche. For no such ambiguity belongs to nature!
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