Nietzsche Genealogy Analysis

1. Discuss the emergence of guilt in light of Nietzsche's analysis in the genealogy. You are expected to trace the sequence Nietzsche presents in describing the descent towards guilt.

• Creditor and debtor relationship
"I have already let it out: in the contractual relationship between creditor and debtor, which is as old as the very conception of a ‘legal subject' and itself refers back to the basic forms of buying, selling, bartering, trade and traffic." (p.43 2nd essay) see pg 49 for more quotes
"Through punishment of the debtor, the creditor takes part in the rights of the masters: at least he, too, shares the elevated feeling of despising and maltreating someone as an ‘inferior' – or at least, when the actual power of punishment,
No doubt about the answer: this sovereign man calls it his conscience…" (p. 40 2nd essay)
• Modern view of morality brings us to ‘bad conscience.'
• "will nothingness rather than not will" "That the ascetic ideal has meant so much to man reveals a basic fact of human will, its horror vacui; it need an aim - , and it prefers to will nothingness rather than not will."
• "Bad conscience" come to us as something bad, shameful.
" ‘Every thing has its price: everything can be compensated for' – the oldest, most naive canon of morals relating to justice, the beginning of all ‘good naturedness', ‘equity', all ‘good will', all ‘objectivity' on earth." (p. 50 ch. 8)

"That the ascetic ideal has meant so much to man reveals a basic fact of human will, its horror vacui; it needs an aim -, and it prefers to will nothingness rather than not will." (p.73 ch 1 3rd
89 ch. 10 3rd essay)

"For an ascetic life is a self-contradiction: here an unparalleled ressentiment rules, that of an unfulfilled instinct and power-will which wants to be master, not over something in life, but over life itself and its deepest, strongest, most profound conditions." (p. 91 ch 11 3rd essay)

"Allow me to present the real state of affairs in contrast to this: the ascetic ideal springs from the protective and healing instincts of a degenerating life which uses every means to maintain itself and struggles for its existence; it indicates a partial physiological inhibition and exhaustion against which the deepest instincts of life, which have remained intact, continually struggle with new methods and inventions." (p. 93 ch 13 3rd essay)

"For man is more ill, uncertain, changeable and unstable than any other animal, without a doubt, - he is the sick animal." (p. 94 ch. 13 3rd