Within our world we have described many things and called them into scrutiny and this act of thorough observation has brought transparency to our senses. The soul, also known as the subject, has been questioned and attempted to be defined by German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, in his 1887 work entitled “On the Genealogy of Morality.” The heart of the problems Nietzsche pursues lie within each subjects’ understanding of their origin of thought. Nietzsche examines the origins of Western morality and begins his analysis of what good and evil can come from our definitions of “good” and “evil”, themselves. Nietzsche’s understanding of spontaneous emotion, daily habit, good, bad, and whatever lies in between, adds to our knowledge of ethics and propels our inquiry into the universality of …show more content…
Nietzsche alludes to the genealogy of what we have come to call “good” and “bad,” and argues the two to be the same thing with respect to the souls of opposing opinions. How we come to encompass this observation is complex and incalculable in the grand scheme of universal ethics, in my regards, but essential to our development along these lines of thought. The eye-opening observation embodied within Nietzsche’s example of slave revolt embodies the aforementioned sample into his works. Two bodies of individuals, slave master and slave, coexist; the two groups of individuals each collaborate together to form two opposing views – one’s “good” being another’s “bad” and vice-versa. Although still vague to me and complicated, I believe I understand the basic individual sentiments each soul must comprehend and incorporate into its being in order to gain knowledge of itself and travel a path of no