This week in class, we're been discussing Friedrich Nietzsche and his sections on genealogy of morals. in the first of three sections titled "good and evil and good and bad", Nietzsche discusses two different codes. The first deals with what he calls "master" morality. which basically described how early ruler viewed good as being wealthy, having power, and success and as result anything less than that was viewed as being bad. The second or "slavery" morality is the opposite master. It criticize that evil comes first and good comes last. He uses religion to help explain his second moral and most specifically the Jews meanly because he this morality was originated through priest. The priest resented the idea that wealth and power was being view as the good. The viewed the ruler hunger for power as evil. Slave morality is driven by "Ressentiment" leading Nietzsche to believe that the love for Christianity comes from hatred. it clear that slavery morals seemed more interesting, however Nietzsche believes that slavery morality has presented a life based on excepting the mundane life as the good instead of pursuing for excellence.
I have some mix feeling between agreeing with Nietzsche and not. I do hope that the master morality have a somewhat of a resurgence. It doesn't have to be linked religion but simple fact that i want people to desire brilliance. I would like to live in a world that is driven by excellence instead ressentiment like we are clearly going through in the modern world. I don't know just thought!!!
Nietzsche seems to push me away and pull me in at the same time too. He makes very good points about how we think and how we should be thinking. It's a very life positive way of going about things. His crusade against morals seems to make sense at first but then upon further inspection he seems to associate the monotheistic religions too closely with morals. Now he does have a point about religion but I don't think he should be dragging morals down with religion. Now maybe that's his goal; to retire the word morals and move forward without the negative connotation. Real compelling viewpoint nonetheless.
ReplyDeleteI have the same problem as you when it comes to agreeing with Nietzsche. I don't want to live in ressentiment, that's like feeling you're alone. But I do agree when you say that it's kinda like how we are living now. Some people do feel that way.
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