Nietzsche Beyond Good And Evil

According to Nietzsche, the right and wrong (good and bad, good and EVIL) are just a type of the concept. Nietzsche explains that from the beginning in his first argument that the “good” did not originate among those to whom goodness was shown. It explains that the trait of “good” was really a trait as we know it today, it was actually people who were good themselves, which is Aristocratic who are powerful, high minded and high class people who controls the class below them and also politics in some cases. This was the concept that defined what right and wrongs were because it cleared things out that good was really a trait but the people who were powerful and high class in society, unlike bad which was completely opposite. But over the time

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who believed that master morality was the superior morality as opposed to slave morality. He starts in the selection of “In Beyond Good and Evil” by saying “To refrain mutually from injury, from violence, from exploitation and put one’s will on par with that of others: this may result in a certain rough sense in good conduct among individuals when the necessary conditions are given…” Nietzsche explains here that if everyone could just treat each other equally, the world would be a lot better. In his opinion, those who believe this refuse to believe what this way of thinking really is, which is “a Will to the denial of life”. At this point, one has to think very deeply to the basis and must resist all sentimental weakness. Nietzsche says that “life itself is ESSENTIALLY appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation,” but why should these words be used specifically when we live in a world where for ages the world has been marked with a disparaging purpose? People in a society treat each other in an equal manor. This type of behavior is taken place in almost every healthy aristocracy. If the society considered itself a healthy and not a dying society, and continues to maintain a positive outlook of things and refrain from doing negative things within the society, then the society will be the “incarnated

Quite possibly the most poignant and eye-opening relationship of the entire play of Hamlet and his mother, becomes sabotaged by Hamlet internalizing Catholic driven dogma. People often resort to using religion as a moral compass to give their lives structure and personal guidance. Friedrich Nietzsche, a prominent figure associated with the existential movement states in his book, Beyond Good and Evil, that “Perhaps one the most solemn concepts which have occasioned the most strife and suffering, the concepts ‘God’ and ‘sin’, will one day seem to us of no more importance than a child’s toy and a child’s troubles” (82). Clearly, Nietzsche actively rejects the concept of committing sins, which is the binding force in most religions. To begin,

This paper is a comparative study between Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil and Martin Luther King Jr’s Letter from Birmingham Jail. Detailing their views regarding ethical and unethical law.

There is only a strong man in his eyes that the society has progressed from. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche says that to keep our society, only powerful people should join together because respecting the weak causes the powerful to become weak, and will result in a weak society. In order to live, the strong crushes the weak to stay dominant because in history the strong are the ones that always win. One of Nietzsche moralities was slave, which was the term that identified the weak individuals. In Nietzsche eyes, people with power exploit the weak, and if the strong honors the weak then the strong will get weaker and destroy the society. Friedrich supported the master morality, stating that dominating people defines good in a person, and that you are masters of other people. He only helped others to better himself, not because he has sympathy on the weak. Nietzsche is just making claims and giving no proof. He assumes the strong makes a better society. He wanted us to look to the past and see the strong always win, and we should not look at the future, at things that will destroy society. Nietzsche believed, only show respect to the strong. He contradicts himself saying there are no standards but creates standards by saying, strong should get their way. He has no logic, just

While Nietzsche’s standpoint of the master morality can be viewed in the lifestyle of people today, it is not a morality that need be accepted or strived for as a sense of power or accomplishment in life. The Bible teaches that as we lose our live for Jesus we will find it (Matthew 10:39). Submitting to God is not an act of weakness, rather an honor and gain as we lose ourselves in Him and find our true selves. The Bible says that we were made in God’s image and likeness, and we were given dominion over the earth (Genesis 1:26). Nietzsche’s master morality appears to be just that, an attempt to gain dominion. Since Nietzsche did not believe in God, which is the way to salvation and eternal life (Romans 10:9), it is safe to assume that he was serving the god of this world and his ways, which have always been to try to copy or be like God (Isaiah 14:13-14). Nietzsche had knowledge about God but decided to turn away from him. Because of this, Romans 1:28 -29 shows that he, among other things would be arrogant, boastful heartless, and invent ways of doing evil, which to me is exactly what his whole master-slave morality portrays. Had Nietzsche just turned from his wicked ways and submitted to the One and only true God, he would have found the peace, love, and true authority with out death.

In Nietzsche’s aphorisms 90-95 and 146-162 he attacks what he believes to be the fundamental basis of the “slave” morality prevalent in the Judeo-Christian tradition as well as other religions and societies. From the beginning, he distinguishes the two different types of moralities he believes to exist: the “master morality”, created by rulers of societies, and the “slave” morality, created by the lowest people in societies. The former stresses virtues of the strong and noble while looking down upon the weak and cowardly. This type of morality, however, is not as widespread as the “slave morality” that has been adopted by so many religions. Nietzsche looks through the psychology and logic of

Both sides of the dichotomy believe the other to be evil and themselves good. Nietzsche characterizes these two competing morality’s as slave and master morality. Master morality values dominance over the weak and despises cowardice, humility, and narrow utility. Conversely, slave morality values compassion, humility, and submissive behavior. Nietzsche believes that those accepting slave morality accept it because their condition doesn’t allow for fulfillment of master morality. This isn’t to say they would abandon slave morality if their condition improved, but that their initial acceptance is rooted in the restricted lifestyle of commoners.

Nietzsche was an atheist, and strongly disliked Christianity. He viewed Christian morality as supporting the weak and the “slave” mentality by encouraging people to blame their circumstances on

We have grown weary of man. Nietzsche wants something better, to believe in human ability once again. Nietzsche’s weariness is based almost entirely in the culmination of ressentiment, the dissolution of Nietzsche’s concept of morality and the prevailing priestly morality. Nietzsche wants to move beyond simple concepts of good and evil, abandon the assessment of individuals through ressentiment, and restore men to their former wonderful ability.

Reading this quote gives me a feeling of fear and excitement all at ones. Fear that there could be a time or war, but excitement that it could bring courage to all of us. He then goes into detail about how every human being is needed in this world. The quiet ones, the overcomers, the patient ones, the judgmental ones, the free spirits, everyone is needed to make our society thrive. Nietzsche believes that in order to fulfill our courage is to live dangerously. We need to be able to jump and do whatever we want whenever we want. If we want to win this warlike age then we have to be courageous and willing to live dangerously. He believes that you truly aren’t living unless you are willing to live dangerously. I completely agree with Nietzsche on this point. We can’t be scared to live our life’s, we have to take it by the horns and control what we

A Last Man is a person who doesn’t worry financial problems in life. A “Over-Man” is a man who has to become positive and gather the spirit to overcome difficult tests in order to prove themselves that he is highly important to make a better change for him and others. According to (Nietzsche's madness), Kyle Arnold, and George Atwood illustrates that “This doctrine celebrates the body and the will, exhorting man to transcend himself and thereby become the "overman," a superior being” (para 26). Therefore, the “Over-Man” could become serious about life and try to wish for the best in order to develop

Nietzsche shares a similar view of man. The important thing in man is his potential; man is striving but for something different, Ubermensch or superman. It represents man constantly striving to overcome himself and become a man whose values are independent from societal conceptions of good and evil. Ubermensch must be willing and able to reject what he is now to become something different and never become content with present values. Similar to Kierkegaard, Nietzsche sees life as a series of stages that take man from the herd to Ubermensch. The first step for man to achieve Ubermensch is to overcome a collective herd view of values because they are not bridges to Ubermensch. Once this herd is overcome, man can begin to concentrate on overcoming himself.

The thought of the herd is to praise the people that may fail and suffer in Nietzsche’s

Nietzsche introduced an idea of philosophy that was more than simply a rational groundwork of existence or as the pursuit of an absolute truth. Instead, he suggested that philosophy is something to be respected as a personal interpretation of life and all its faculties (morality, existentialism etc.) and that was – for him - focused on life affirmation. Furthermore, this thinking implies that philosophy is not a be all and end all answer to life’s questions; rather, it is merely a