Genealogy of Morals Friedrich Nietzsche addresses two types of opposing morality: those of the masters‚ and those of the slaves. Inherently‚ such a characterization carries with it the stigmatic impression of inequality. Rather than attempting to remedy this imbalance‚ Nietzsche both celebrates aristocratic values of master morality and laments their steady disappearance from the west. When comparing these two moralities‚ Nietzsche’s preference is clear. Nietzsche describes master morality (or
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According to The Genealogy of Morals‚ Friedrich Nietzsche’s account of history regarding the origin of morality posed a decadent contention that deeply challenged him. This problem resulted in an enlightening new perspective that altered his foundation of morality: a question of value. His objection was to clarify the origin of the moral language‚ in order to establish a placement for the value of morality. He began his journey by theorizing the division of individuals into two types of morality-
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In this paper I will evaluate how Nietzsche and Mill would answer the question of if it were right or wrong for Paul Gauguin to quit his job and abandon his family to pursue a career in art. I will then develop my own view about Gauguin’s actions‚ explain why I think there are two important points in this issue that need to be addressed and why I think his actions were both permissible and impermissible‚ and compare my view with the views of Nietzsche and Mill. In 1885‚ Paul Gauguin quit his job
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Peace is the most important to Lao-Tzu‚ but one’s passions are what are most important to Friedrich Nietzsche. He explains‚ in “Morality as Anti-Nature”‚ how passions affect people. How they are handled ultimately affects how that passion is regarded. Everyone handles their passions differently. Those‚ who cannot handle their passions‚ discourage everyone else from accepting those passions. Nietzsche encourages everyone to
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Why does Nietzsche insist that the pleasure that comes with power is preferable to the happiness that comes with virtue and the exercise of reason? There are many ways to approach this question and I’m not sure if my approach is correct. But I will try anyways. If you look at the text Nietzsche stated “it needed‚ first‚ only to answer “Happiness” to the question: What do men want? (one dared not say “Power”: that would have been immoral)” (page 57) Why would “Power” be immoral? To answer this question
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Through this quote‚ Friedrich Nietzsche explores the relationships between conflicting groups in society and the boundaries that set each group apart. Nietzsche’s obscure choice of words‚ namely “the lonely one”‚ indicates that he felt that more than one group of people were suffering. “The lonely one” could be the friendless child‚ the woman in a man’s world‚ the leader making necessary but unpopular decision or the black man in a sea of white; any person wronged due to the social hegemonies and
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In Of the Genealogy of Morality‚ Nietzsche sought to provide context for what he saw as the central value system of the society in which he lived: slave-morality. Nietzsche saw morality as reflective of the conditions in which its proponents were brought up. He saw the roots of slave morality in oppression and slavery‚ and posits that it grew as a reaction to the morality of the masters of the time. What follows is a simplified account of Nietzsche’s master-slave dichotomy‚ and what he saw as the
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the will to assume responsibility for oneself.” (Nietzsche. Twilight of the Idols. Trans. Hollingdale. Sect. 38). Everyone desires freedom but everyone cannot handle the responsibilities of freedom. I will compare J.S. Mill’s views on the social function of freedom with that of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s characters from both‚ the novel Notes From Underground and the excerpt; The Grand Inquisitor‚ also drawing supplementary arguments from Friedrich Nietzsche‚ while expressing my views alongside. Mill’s core
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hide the truth from one ’s self? How could this be: what makes it possible for a single person to be both deceived and deceiver? Nietzsche makes self-deception a reality through the error of truth. Like Pirsig ’s puzzling drive for truth‚ it is Nietzsche ’s drive for truth that actually facilitates self-deception. In On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense‚ Nietzsche ’s treatment of truth supports this dichotomy of belief and actually breaks down the classical definition of the lie. In doing so
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meaningless and that there is a rejection of all religious and moral principles. Nietzsche uses this concept when he explains his beliefs of the rejection universal standards of justice and virtue. For the explanation of this concept of nihilism uses a master and slave situation. This situation can be used to explain the nature of the master and the slave‚ the role that resentment plays‚ and the importance of strength. Nietzsche says that nihilism means that the highest values devalue themselves. Values
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