Nietzsche Essays

first essay of On The Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche states clearly his stand that "Beyond Good and Evil... does not mean "Beyond Good and Bad"" (Nietzsche, page 143). Nietzsche makes the distinction between good/bad, and good/evil, by delineating the central idea that what is good and evil generally carries a morality to its definitions, whereas the former is essentially a social construct with slanted purposes and no true objectivity to its meanings. Nietzsche frames the idea that the values of good

fall; Judeo/Christian thought replaced master ideals with what Nietzsche calls, slave ideals such as equality, humility, conformity and the hating/rejection of one’s place in life. The vilification of master ideals following the fall of Rome and the rise of Christianity led to a perversion of hierarchical roles in society where the weak rule and the strong are suppressed and imprisoned by faulty morality. Nietzsche’s roman

fundamental principles of right conduct rather than legalities or custom. So what is Nietzsche: Genealogy of Morals going to tell us about these morals that will show us that what we do is more about those humanly principles rather than legal principle? Nietzsche: Genealogy of Morals is consisted of 3 essays about morals. I will be talking and summarizing the first essay that he wrote for the Genealogy of Morals. Nietzsche expresses his dissatisfaction with certain English psychologists. He 's not too

Nietzsche regards free will not only to be a philosophical error but also to be a falsification in society (651). Nietzsche suggests that any particular “will” is going to be strong or weak to some actual degree and points out that with “will” there are thoughts and our thoughts can flow and change just as things in the universe flow and change (651). According to Nietzsche, the underlying force driving all change is will and it boils down to a drive for freedom and domination over other things (651)

It is easy to note that Plato and Nietzsche have very different views from each other. They are philosophers from different decades, with different backgrounds, and have different morals which creates two polar perspectives on life. While Plato is considered a founding philosopher, Nietzsche is a more contemporary philosopher who encouraged radical ideas. Plato lived in Greece, during period when it was going through major changes and incorporating new cultural ideals to blend with its own. Greece

What method does Nietzsche use to become the Dionysian Overman? What perspective on life does the Overman adopt? How does it enable “amor fati” and express optimum Yes-saying to our present natural life in the world? How does this overcome “slave morality or religion”? Nietzsche uses acceptance of fate, its obstacles, adversity and also its divinity to become the Dionysian Overman. He believes by affirming life in both its cruelty and beauty that we can achieve joy in the present without the need

contain the notion that one must actually suggest and preserve an idea in order to contextualize one’s idea. Tacitly, this philosophy, nihilism, seems new to most people and to philosophy as a whole. Especially from a Western standpoint. But Nietzsche conducts an unapologetic attack on what society has deemed as conformist morality. And at the end of the 19th Century (when he died) this could have struck many as more progressive rather than conservative. Many during that time, however, saw it

mortality presented by Nietzsche in his Genealogy of Morals is prevalent within modern literature. The dark effects of this morality have crept far beyond the general view of the elite class and into our writing. This is not much of a surprise since literature reflects the world and our view of the world within it. Unfortunately, its impact on our society is shown by its prevalence within modern writing. This morality allows the author to focus on the “evil enemy” (Nietzsche 39) instead of the good

right to make promises because he, according to Nietzsche, is the only being who is able to keep those promises. For Nietzsche, an overman has the strength of character: the reliability and regularity to be able to make promises (“Second essay: ‘Guilt’, ‘bad conscience’ and related matters” 36). Nietzsche connects the would promise with the word responsibility, and the importance of that in a man who has the ability to make promises. Nietzsche refers to the ability to make promises as the mastering

problem of the relationship between Nietzsche and metaphysics might seem to be a settled issue, this is in fact a quite complicated and fascinating problematic. The difficulty with this subject lies in the often unacknowledged ambiguity that the term ‘metaphysics’ exhibits in Nietzsche's writing, as this word assumes different nuances and connotations in different contexts. Therefore, if we can get past the usual rhetoric on the topic, we come to realize that Nietzsche addresses the topic of metaphysics