Nietzsche Good And Evil

In his book, Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche examines the origins of Good and Evil. He postures that these two concepts are derived from language, rather than essential morality. He argues that people label things as good or evil based upon their personal feelings and position of privilege. Douglas Smith translated this edition of Genealogy of Morals into English, but he also included explanations of some of Nietzsche’s key concepts. According to Smith, “A central concept in Nietzsche’s argument, ressentiment is the essence of slave morality, a purely reactive mode of feeling which simply negates the active and spontaneous affirmation of values on the part of the nobility” (142). Ressentiment stems from the oppressed party’s jealousy. The oppressed do not accept that it is bad that they do not have the luxuries and rights that the nobility posses. Instead, the oppressed use ressentiment, flip the moral spectrum, and declare that those luxuries are evil.

Evil is immoral behavior and not accepting others. This is overtly displayed when Hitler hypothesized he was superior to the Jews and his Anti-Semitic policies. In Lord of the Flies, all of the boys did not accept Piggy because he has ‘ass-mar’ and is smarter than the rest. Hitler's beliefs about his superiority above the Jews and the boys views towards Piggy are evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche “believed that (a person’s view on what is Good and Evil) is dependent on one's own personal and religious perception of good and evil. ”(Various) Throughout English Literature, evil is an extremely important and controversial theme.

Nietzsche remarks on how different the concepts of “evil” and “bad” are, in spite of both being considered the opposite of “good.” He explains this difference by explaining that there are two very different concepts of “good” at work: The noble man’s “good” is precisely what the man of ressentiment calls “evil” (Alderman).

Nietzsche first introduces the concept of slave and master morality in the chapter about “Good, bad and evil”. He explains it as a society which is split into two, where a “militarily and politically dominant group of ‘masters’ exercises absolute control over a completely subordinate group of ‘slaves” (xx). Thus, the slaves become the abused, oppressed, and weak- what he refers to as slave morality. Meanwhile, the masters are the noble human beings who determine what is good and bad based on their own values- which he defines as master morality. This group of people do not set values and morals, but create them. They use the term “good” when referring to themselves, and use the term “bad” when referring to the “slaves”, “who by virtue are of their weakness are not capable of living the life of self-affirming physical exuberance” (Nietzsche 1884). Correspondingly, the slaves end up developing hatred for their masters and

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

Nietzsche says that humans are inextricably linked to their will. In their relations to others, people desire power because it secures them with comfort and safety, which allows them to feel control over their environment. Over time, the development of societal groups, and distinctions between classes emerged. Once the noble class was significantly superior, the other classes were left feeling weak and powerless. In order to rise above the physically triumphant aristocratic-nobles, the priestly caste utilized religion to gain more control. The difference between the moral values of the noble class from those of the priestly caste can be understood by comparing both approaches to violence and cognition. However, with the technological advancements

Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Friedrich, Germany in 1844, later died in 1900. Nietzsche literature and history philosophy was considered to be worst sophist. All moral philosophers have been soporific, misleading. In other words, do not believe in just anything a “God” tell you because there is no God. Nietzsche was a moral theorist as new moral theorist many try to adopt moral theory and add science aspects. But not consider idea of conscience in same way as former moral theorist have in the past. Being a moral theorist in regards to actually raises doubt that there is such thing as morality. There are two known moralities, Master and Slave morality. These moralities came based on what Nietzsche said, “to be a human is to be a beast, and tube a superior beast, a person must be able to attack, control, happiness, exploit the weak. All societies have a class and within the class, known as ruling caste. The ruling caste originated from barbarian caste in state of nature. Where violence and power is wanted greatly. The hire you are in the caste you are considered to have more power, or in Nietzsche case you have more knowledge. Having more knowledge is the only way a person can reach true happiness. Nietzsche created these steps to Astuteness moral castration. The steps consist of making virtue the goal, set up standards for the virtue, opponents are ungodly, suffering

Argument about the Nature of Good and Evil As Presented In the Novella According to the Ester and Joshua (125), the concept of ‘evil’ takes on two sides; the broad concept and the narrow notion. The broad concept presents any bad state of affairs, wrongful action or a flaw in character. It is into two, which are the natural evil and the moral evil. Natural evil is non-intended bad state of affairs while moral evil, on the other hand, results from the intentional bad state of the affairs.

Nietzsche claims that guilt today has been misconstrued as a result of the slave morality. The internalization process that man underwent through the ‘slave revolt in morality’ created depth and inner reflection that led to what Nietzsche calls “bad conscience”. This notion of bad conscience was ultimately caused by the forced turning of our violent instincts to punish others inward. This ‘turning’ resulted in frustration as man lacked the capability to express himself, in result of this, we created an inner life and conscience that sought to remove these instincts. Bad conscience is therefore something that goes against life, that sickens humanity, it does not allow for an expression of man’s vitality for life. Instead, bad conscience defines a new set of values for humanity that insist suffering to be something that destroys life. The concept of guilt now takes on a different meaning; it represents an internal punishment.

Good Bad is that of Nietzsche. Good Evil is the verbiage of the plebian, the nihilists that perpetuate the fallacy of Christian morality. Nietzsche’s genealogy of morality is intriguing because of the ironic, and hypocritical origin story that he develops. By pinpointing moments of inaccuracy and hypocrisy, he demonstrates the inefficacy of Good-Evil morality. Christian morality is rooted in envy and inefficacy, in a wish to achieve the strength of the aristocracy. This is replicated through ascetic teachings using weaknesses to the Christian advantage. Termed ressentiment – meaning hatred, and hostility – the envy of the proletariat, of the weak is used as the key term. Nietzsche claims that ressentiment refers to an inability to change a situation – to guilt. By focusing narrowly on the origins of Christian values, Nietzsche builds a story of emotion, trying to stimulate anger and resentment against the church. For Nietzsche, Christian Values arose out of weakness and trickery. The premise of their core values – justice and patience are used to explain away an inability to fulfill the desires of the slaves or the weak. However, a significant problem originates in Nietzsche’s attempt to acknowledge that Christianity originated in a lie that neither the weak nor the strong believed. If both the strong and the weak have memory on which to develop a history and morals – how did the Christian morality gain

Attempting to explain morality Nietzsche appeals to social structure and psychology. He argues that humans naturally exploit each other, and of the many ways this occurs aristocratic castes are the most relevant. Aristocratic societies create a dichotomy in which those deemed noble rule over the commoners. From this dichotomy, good and evil arise.

Society would most likely agree that it is the opposite of good. But when Nietzsche is talking about the difference between evil and bad, we realize there are two very different kinds of good. As said on page 476, “But it is not the same concept “good”: one should ask rather precisely who is evil in the sense of the morality of resentment.” (476) When the noble man, or master morality, classifies themselves or something they do as good, the slave morality, would consider that evil. Who is causing this evil and why do they think it is good? From my understanding, the master morality and the slave morality have two very different meanings. With the master morality or nobles thinking they are at the top of the power, the automatically think they are good. They may think they are born good, and what they are doing is good. Master morality may think that the slave morality is just some weak people and do not deserve their attention. But when talking about the slave morality, they believe everything the noble do, is evil. The slave morality think that the noble, or master morality, have too much power. Just because they were born into good, does not make them good. They are causing more harm than they are causing good. In a way to some resentment can be considered to be almost contradicting. When the slave morality believe the master morality are doing bad, they will focus on how resentment will take over. The will

Nietzsche begins his discussion of good and moral with an etymological assessment of the designations of “good” coined in various languages. He “found they all led back to the same conceptual transformation—that everywhere ‘noble,’

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