Genealogy Of Morality

Every major occurrence in history displays a new characteristic in human beings that future generations can interpret as positive or negative. The Holocaust demonstrates to future generations a trait that exists in humans. The discovery that came with the Holocaust is the idea that humans’ main concern is themselves when they are in challenging situations. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, presents this quality in his novel, Night. Wiesel establishes through Night that the people’s primary concern is over their own protection and wellness to prove that, in times of chaos, humans protect themselves first through instinct.

In this 1999 speech, Elie Wiesel tells the story of his involvement as a prisoner in World War II. When he was freed from the war, he reported that it was if he had died. He was no longer able to enjoy the things he liked before the war, and he lived in a constant state of worry that disasters such as the Holocaust would occur again (Wiesel, 1999). Wiesel, therefore, urges the audience to avoid indifference because this is the trait that leads people to be able to accept events like the Holocaust. He claims that when people believe the world’s events are not related to them, it is easier for them to rationalize their occurrence. Thus, Wiesel uses his emotion to demonstrate the problems of indifference and urges the audience to avoid experiencing this trait.

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, a boy named Elie explains his experiences throughout the Holocaust. His family and other Jews were expelled from Sighet and ended up in a concentration camp in Auschwitz. During this time, the only thing the Germans couldn’t deprive the Jews was their hope and humanity. Within the memoir, the theme presented is, “We must never forget, never forget...Human hope & faith must never die…”.

Friedrich Nietzsche’s “On the Genealogy of Morality” includes his theory on man’s development of “bad conscience.” Nietzsche believes that when transitioning from a free-roaming individual to a member of a community, man had to suppress his “will to power,” his natural “instinct of freedom”(59). The governing community threatened its members with punishment for violation of its laws, its “morality of customs,” thereby creating a uniform and predictable man (36). With fear of punishment curtailing his behavior, man was no longer allowed the freedom to indulge his every instinct. He turned his aggressive focus inward, became ashamed of his natural animal instincts, judged himself as inherently evil, and developed a bad conscience (46).

Morality, in ancient China, India and early American have set the foundation for our world today. Their influences in family, religion and their own societies have inspired modern day societies to be more interconnected with each other. Each civilization has similarities and differences, but all have affected us in small and monumental ways to become the thriving and successful society that we are today.

It is known that vaccinia virus (VACV) is a potent inducer of IL-12 and IL-18 (36), which can augment NK activity (37). We were interested in determining whether control of primary respiratory VACV infection in immunocompetent mice correlated with either the presence and/or recruitment of NK cells to the site of infection. To do this, cohorts of naive, wild type (WT) C57BL/6 mice were infected intranasally (i.n.) with the highly virulent, mouse-adapted VACV Western Reserve strain (VACV-WR; 1.25 x 104 PFU), and the kinetics of NK cell recruitment to the lung and peripheral tissues were determined.

Psychology, as most know, is the study of the mind and personal or group thoughts, feelings, and emotions in humans and animals. Scientists study, analyze, and investigate many areas of psychology, but the causes and effects of mood disorders and emotion irregularities are still unrecognized. Many studies were an attempt to find more information on mental illnesses. One of the most common illnesses in the United States is depression, also; it is the most often recognized mental illness in the world. What most clinicians don’t know, however, is what happens in the brains of patients before, during, and after depressive episodes.

"Today Hiroshima has been revived," the prime minister said, "and has become a city of culture and prosperity. Seventy years on I want to re-emphasize the necessity of world peace."

The Genealogy of Morals is a polemic view of morality written by the idiosyncratic German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The first book develops on 3 fundamental concepts. The concept of the Slave Morality, Ressitement, and the Aristocratic Morality. In the First book Nietzsche attempts to show the distinction of Good vs. Evil through genealogy. A genealogy could be comparable to an intricate etymology. A genealogy would be a historical approach to any philosophical question by first determining the origin or source of a word. “What first put me on the right track was this question: what is the true etymological meaning of the various terms for the idea ‘Good” which have been coined in various languages?” (Page 17) Nietzsche does this with

When reflecting on the diversity of the world and the people that surround us it’s difficult to understand how we all compromise with one another. Everyone desires different things in life, for some its happiness and shiny objects, for others its Gods approval and moral intuition. Those that aim towards happiness are said to be a part of theories of the good, were as those that are more in tuned to the subject of God or gods and morality are regarded as theories of morality. With this in mind, we will be shifting our focus on theories of morality, specifically relating to the divine command theory. In concerns to this theory there is a division that one must choose between deep moral convictions and Gods absolute moral authority. Throughout, this intellectual argument concerning the divine command theory; I will be arguing that this is in fact a plausible moral theory, based off an answer that many religious individuals take on and that is God’s role inbeing superior over all.

From the inception of society, man has always had to cope with instinctive acts that ultimately lead to the decisions they make. In Friedrich Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals, the discussion of guilt and the theory of a bad conscience are portrayed in a noteworthy manner. In this chapter of The Betrothed, multiple characters morality is challenged by the idea of acting on their instincts. One of the main protagonists of the novel, Lucia, is challenged with the decision of listening to Gertrude or potentially lying to Father Cristoforo. Another character called The Unnamed, the man entrusted by Don Rodrigo to kidnap Lucia, faces the decision of acting on impulse in completing his promise he made Don Rodrigo or acting on his morals and letting

The client is an inheritor of the moral model of alcohol and drug abuse; the individual is

In the Genealogy of Morality, Friedrich Nietzsche took on a cardinal role in challenging traditional morality: a bid to provide a “critique of moral values” and an examination of “the value of these values”. Setting up his project as a ‘crusade’ against morality, Nietzsche set out simultaneous attacks on numerous targets such as Christian morality, utilitarianism, and the ethics of ‘compassion’, that make up much of our understanding of morality. This essay seeks to evaluate Nietzsche’s take on traditional morality in four parts. The first part lays out the groundwork of his challenge, as the nature of morality that Nietzsche objected needs to be clearly identified. This will be followed by an explanation of how his challenge is supposed to

The moral philosophy that we know and recognize today in the Western world is slave morality, a morality which puts forward ideals of fairness, equality, and democracy. However, many centuries ago during the medieval times, master morality was the norm; a morality that favors those superior in strength, beauty, intelligence, and status. Master morality preceded slave morality.

‘It is from society and not from the individual that morality derives’ (Durkheim 1974: 61). According to Emile Durkheim ‘morality begins with the membership and life of a group…and that society creates all moral codes, not individuals’ (Durkheim 1974: 37). He stated that an individual cannot exist without society or deny it, without denying himself. Zygmunt Bauman however disagrees and believes morality is a pre-social impulse and therefore does not originate in society. In this essay I will first explore Durkheim’s theory of morality. I will then interrogate Durkheim’s claim that moral values come from society and are solely directed towards society by examining Bauman’s critique of his theory exemplified in ‘Modernity and the