Nietzsche: Genealogy of Morals
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SummaryGood versus Evil, this is the ever present conflict in human morality and while nearly one third of the modern world supports this doctrine by supporting Christianity, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche abhors this division of morals. His essay, Genealogy of Morals, remembers that once Good versus Bad was the real conflict of morality and he argues that humanity is worse off because of this reversal of ideas. Dubbing these new Christian morals as slave morals he claims to trace their rise to dominance back to the Roman era and instantly identifies them as the poison of humanity (7th Section.13-18th Line). Specifically the reversal of the two is what immediately interested me; my disbelief that the richest could succumb to the desires of the poorest, even in our society the rich hold the power as they must have back then; but also, how can Nietzsche envision a society where these utilitarian morals are not in place, does he have the answer to this?
Table of Contents
- The terms Nietzsche uses to describe these two distinct moral groups.
- Slave Morality is the opposite of Noble Morality.
- Utilitarianism.
- The idea of good in opposition to bad in an analogy with Noble Morality versus Slave Morality.
- Conclusion.
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