It is quite obvious that Nietzsche strongly believed that Christianity has nonetheless, demean our human rights by being one of the “founding fathers” of morality. Nietzsche claimed that morality is anti-nature, thus the creator of such a “self-torturing” principle, that…
I will begin with the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche whose ideals he defends with the genealogy of morality. In his book Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche is critical of “bad conscience” and considers it to stem from Christianity. Bad conscience as referred by Nietzsche is “the state in which an individual believes they neither deserve a good life nor are they able to create one for themselves.” Nietzsche believes that we shouldn’t focus on one right path to the good life because there isn’t one; everything depends on a person’s willingness to accept their past, embrace their present, and change for their future.…
On the Genealogy of Morality the word ‘ressentiment’ is possibly one of the key concepts in Nietzsche’s ideas about the psychology of ‘slave-morality’, the birth of morality, and the way it reassigned morality as we know it today. The word meaning itself is very close to the word resentment in English but is slightly different. The context in which Nietzsche uses the word ‘ressentiment’ is a psychological state of people that are conscious of their own inferiority and turn it to hatred towards external anger. It is a feeling that arises from the incapability of one’s success and hence finding external factors to blame for this incapability. Nietzsche aligns this concept with the weak people or slaves which are inferior to the noble, strong…
No serious thinker has done more unintentional harm to the Jewish people than Friedrich Nietzsche. Following his death, Nietzsche’s writings served as an inspiration and philosophical justification for Adolf Hitler and Nazism. Quite paradoxically, Nietzsche was far from anti-Semitic; in fact, many considered Nietzsche to be one of the more pro-Jewish philosophers of his era. Although Nietzsche’s position against anti-Semitism seems clear in the second and the third essay of The Genealogy of Morals, it is possible to misconstrue comments within the first essay as anti-Semitic. Yet considering the totality of Nietzsche’s writing in his The Genealogy of Morals, the Nazis wrongly regarded…
To understand Nietzsche’s version of the origin of guilt, some background information is necessary. In The Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche introduces the reader to two different types of morality; the slave morality and the Noble morality. These two types of morality are at odds with each other, the slave morality develops specifically as a result of the critique of the master morality.…
Instincts for Nietzsche are one of the most important things that one should possess in order to stay true to who we are as humans. If we are to use reason every day in order to get things done than we are not being ourselves, we are fake. He states that the brain is the latest and shallowest development in our evolutionary time period that we humans have tracked through. If we go deeper into where we used to be before our brain, before our reason was established, all we have are our instincts. That’s how we got to where we are today. Every animal has their own set of instincts. Instincts are not taught to you, they are known from the time you are born. If you follow them then you will live. Instincts are basic survival knowhow’s of…
In the first essay of The Genealogy of Morals Friedrich Nietzsche addresses two types of opposing morality: those of the masters, and those of the slaves. Inherently, such a characterization carries with it the stigmatic impression of inequality. Rather than attempting to remedy this imbalance, Nietzsche both celebrates aristocratic values of master morality and laments their steady disappearance from the west.…
Nietzsche here specifies that his task is not simply to expose the psychological and historical eventuality that make for different moralities, but to question moralities for their objective value. It is exposed how a particular morality comes from a tradition. Nietzsche states how the only thing that matters is their current, actual functional value in objective terms, and their potential functional value. The work can be used to determine whether the values of the road’s protagonist’s actions are subjective, meaning they fit the characters needs. It can also be used to determine if there is any source of absolute morality in the novel.…
Nietzsche expressed his dissatisfaction with modernity. He disliked the contemporary "lazy peace", "cowardly compromise", "tolerance", and "resignation". Nietzsche introduced his concept of will to power and defined the concepts of good, bad, and happiness in relation to the will to power. He blamed Christianity for demonizing strong, higher humans. Mankind, according to Nietzsche, is corrupt and its highest values are depraved.…
Morals mark actions as good or evil but the genesis of these morals is an enigma. Some credit God with establishing the morals that must be…
In his second essay of the Geneaology of Morals, Nietzsche attempts to identify and explain the origin of the conscience. He does not adopt the view of the conscience that is accepted by the “English Psychologists”, such as Bentham, J. Mill, J.S. Mill and Hume, as the result of an innate moral feeling. Rather, it is his belief that the moral content of our conscience is formed during childhood under the influence of society. Nietzsche defines the conscience as an introspective phenomenon brought about by a feeling of responsibility, in which one analyzes their own morality due to the internalization of the values of society. This definition holds the position that the conscience is not something innate to humans, rather it has arisen through evolution. In light of this, this paper will give insight into how Nietzsche reaches this conclusion, as well as what results from it. In order to do this there will be discussion of guilt, punishment, the will to power and implications from society.…
- understand that this is a debate regarding whether or not ethics is an objective or subjective discipline…
Moral philosophy focuses on the judgment’s we make in our life and how we come to the moral decision if it is right or wrong. Some of the questions that may have been asked my philosophers such as St. Augustine is questioning what moral judgment is, or how we truly know that moral judgment is really moral judgment. Looking at the way that people behave and how we come to understand right from wrong and difference between good and evil is something that has been judged my many people over the years. There is nothing documented in writing what moral judgment is, so as a society we have come up with morals through many generations. Some people may look at it as morals were set my the government to give us a way we should act and if we choose not to follow the way they want us to act then we have to live with the punishment they see fit for that person. Other may look at it that morals were set by God and that our judgment day is when we pass. Many people will look at morals and question them to find a reason or an answer for why we have morals and how they came about.…
For most people, God is at the center of their lives. They think about him when they do things they shouldn’t, they look for forgiveness in him and for they even ask him to give them happiness. So when most people hear the phrase “God is dead” they laugh it off and continue with their day. But this gave birth to a new worldview in which God is not at the center. Friedrich Nietzsche is the one who coined the phrase in his text “The Madman”. This worldview describes that once we realize that God is dead and that we are the ones who killed him, we will pave the way for a better future for the generations to come.…
In his work, Nietzsche introduces the concepts of Master and Slave Morality and with them, the problem of the Ascetic Ideal. Master morality is, in short, a morality of strength, individualism, and nobility that weighs actions on their consequences. Slave morality, on the other hand, values humility, sympathy, and kindness. It values actions based on whether their intent was one of “good” or “evil.” He links Slave morality to the moral codes of Christianity and emphasises that morality of “good” or “evil” is ultimately harmful. However, in modern times, Nietzsche believes that everyone experiences the struggle between Master and Slave morality.…