This new type is defined as Priestly. The priest considers himself pure, however Nietzsche criticizes the priestly type because they internalize values and turn away from the world, avoiding worldly pleasures as a result. The priestly class introduces thinking to the nobel type and Nietzsche claims that man becomes an interesting animal as a result. It is this introduction of thinking and inwardness that results in guilt. From these feelings of guilt a sense of bad conscience develops. Conscience as defined by Nietzsche is “the proud awareness of the extraordinary privilege of responsibility” and the “power over oneself and over fate” (The Genealogy of Morals, Section 2) meaning essentially that a man with good conscience has an awareness over his abilities and has the power to fulfill the responsibilities he takes upon himself. The man with good conscience is driven by his own measure of self worth, a sort of self reverence; while the man with bad conscience is driven by the fear of guilt, or
This new type is defined as Priestly. The priest considers himself pure, however Nietzsche criticizes the priestly type because they internalize values and turn away from the world, avoiding worldly pleasures as a result. The priestly class introduces thinking to the nobel type and Nietzsche claims that man becomes an interesting animal as a result. It is this introduction of thinking and inwardness that results in guilt. From these feelings of guilt a sense of bad conscience develops. Conscience as defined by Nietzsche is “the proud awareness of the extraordinary privilege of responsibility” and the “power over oneself and over fate” (The Genealogy of Morals, Section 2) meaning essentially that a man with good conscience has an awareness over his abilities and has the power to fulfill the responsibilities he takes upon himself. The man with good conscience is driven by his own measure of self worth, a sort of self reverence; while the man with bad conscience is driven by the fear of guilt, or