Nietzsche Good And Evil Analysis

The Genealogy of Morals is comprised of three essays that focus on and criticizes the value of moral judgements. The first essay, “Good and Evil,” “Good and Bad” contrasts what Nietzsche describes as “Master Morality,” “Slave Morality.” Master morality was developed by the strong, free and healthy who had control over their own happiness. Slave morality is the feelings that the slaves adopted from being controlled by their wealthy and happy masters. These people were nicknamed the masters of evil and ironically called themselves good by comparison. The second essay “Guilt, “Bad Conscience,” and the like. It deals with guilt and bad conscience and the like. Nietzsche traced the origins of the ideas and found out that the idea of guilt and punishment were originally not based on any sense of moral transgression. Instead guilt actually meant some sort of debt was owed and that punishment was simply a form of
This idea brought me to my first conclusion on Nietzsche’s view on enlightenment. I think Nietzsche is giving us a very real and maybe a more dark view point on enlightenment. The part of Nietzsche that stuck out the most was when he discussed suffering. I thought about it and I realized that humanity does fuel its everyday society by the act of suffering. Suffering however is not as cut and dry as one might think. In reality suffering can be a grand source of enlightenment. Some of the biggest life lessons that a person can learn actually come from their mistakes and mistakes commonly lead to some form of suffering. This leads to my second conclusion that Nietzsche wants you to think he challenging other views of enlightenment so you can find the real view in which that true enlightenment is discovered through life experience and the will to challenge the worlds natural want to search for