Nietzsche's On The Genealogy Of Morality

“On the Genealogy of Morality” Thought-Strom
Within our world we have described many things and called them into scrutiny and this act of thorough observation has brought transparency to our senses. The soul, also known as the subject, has been questioned and attempted to be defined by German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, in his 1887 work entitled “On the Genealogy of Morality.” The heart of the problems Nietzsche pursues lie within each subjects’ understanding of their origin of thought. Nietzsche examines the origins of Western morality and begins his analysis of what good and evil can come from our definitions of “good” and “evil”, themselves. Nietzsche’s understanding of spontaneous emotion, daily habit, good, bad, and whatever lies in between, adds to our knowledge of ethics and propels our inquiry into the universality of
moral and ethical action by scrutinizing our psychological temperament towards these ideas.
Nietzsche specifically concentrates on souls’ psychological temperaments by using the Greek etymology of words to place a spotlight on how individuals, and subsequently groups of like-minded individuals, can come to a sensation of unison.
Nietzsche alludes to the genealogy of what we have come to call “good” and “bad,” and argues the two to be the same thing with respect to the souls of opposing opinions. How we come to encompass this observation is complex and incalculable in the grand scheme of universal ethics, in my regards, but essential to our development along these lines of thought. The eye-opening observation embodied within Nietzsche’s example of slave revolt embodies the aforementioned sample into his works. Two bodies of individuals, slave master and slave, coexist; the two groups of individuals each collaborate together to form two opposing views – one’s “good” being another’s “bad” and vice-versa. Although still vague to me and complicated, I believe I understand the basic individual sentiments each soul must comprehend and incorporate into its being in order to gain knowledge of itself and travel a path of no
regrets.
Analysts able to hold microscopes to their souls while controlling their own pleasure and pain, sacrificing desirability to truth, may be able to focus and define themselves. These analysts, or philosophers, may also be able to rally and focus their community members’ morals by developing their depth of thought and this could eventually lead to all affecting their surroundings in positive manners using Nietzsche’s interpretations. The value of these observations and inquiries intrigue me and I hope to improve myself and others through my actions in accordance to the honesties stated in this work by Friedrich Nietzsche.

We’ve become lazy and comfortable with what we have been told are “good” traits when in actuality we need to search ourselves for what gives us those truly good feelings. Pg 294.. bottom, we can be directed into misconstruing ideas through language due to laziness. Our ideas have been placed upon a subject – that subject being something else. We can not describe ourselves using a subject to place a definition upon. We must define ourselves without the constraints of projecting upon the world what we ourselves fear, love, hate, and prize.