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Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Slave Morality begins when resentment become creative and creates values," Friedrich Nietzsche believed that Christianity was in fact a product of Slave Morality. Slave Morality came about in response to the original higher level of morals, called Master Morality. This form of morality is associated with the struggle between good and bad, strong and weak. In response to this original form of morality came Slave Morality which is more associated with the details of the struggle between good and evil, such as the connotations of humbleness as good and selfishness as bad.
Slave Morality is the essence of Christianity. The morals associated with Christianity, such as meekness, piety, and charity are key examples of a Slave Morality dynamic. They come out the public's desire to be good, and therefore fulfill the Master Morality to the fullest. Figures such as Jesus Christ become prime examples of what it is like to fulfill the belief systems found within the Slave-Master dynamic of morality. Nietzsche believed this form of morality to a plague on the minds of the citizens of Europe. In this dynamic they could only reaffirm their position as good Christian citizens through the condemnation of others as evil; good does not exist without the defining of its opposite, evil.
Together the two forms of morality combine to create the systems of morals and social balances which govern Christian nations all over the world. Along with slave morality being associated with the Christian religion, it is also closely related to Judaism as well. These two make up most of the religious beliefs of the Western world, and therefore were a major source of criticism for Nietzsche. He believed that all forms of morality associated with religious beliefs were a product of society's inability to cope with the real nature of life. He also believed religion to be almost like a drug to many people who could not live life without the need to believe in a false belief of a father figure guiding them and looking out for them. Christianity, although it preaches goodness, relies on the sole fact that it condemns others as evil. Therefore the essential foundations on which the Christian religion is based on is threatened by the very practice which defines it.
Nietzsche, what is the difference between master morality and slave morality? Which does he prefer and why? The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's seminal document The Genealogy of Morality attempts to chronicle the history or 'birth' of morality, which for Nietzsche does not originate within the innate human character but as a result of social impositions. In pre-Christian, pagan times, the strong were naturally considered to be the 'better' of the two
This is because he believes the people in the slave morality are suffering. He sees violation of their humanity. According to him, they do not have freedom and are weary. This perspective of Nietzsche concerning the slave morality is discouraging. This is because all human being should be free from oppression. Further, according to this description of slave morality it gives evidence that the people under it are miserable. Slave
However, Nietzsche is keen to observe that the fact that there are varying standards of morality or different moralities does not mean that there is no form of biding morality. If this is the case therefore, then it is logical to argue that there are as well varying kinds of 'binding' originating from the varying moralities, for instance, the Christian binding cannot be deemed the same as the binding
Nietzsche and Nihilism "Nihilism" was the term used by Friederich Nietzsche to describe what he considered the devaluation of the highest values posited by the ascetic ideal. The age in which he lived was viewed by the German philosopher as one of passive nihilism, which he defined as the unawareness of the fact that the religious and philosophical absolutes had dissolved in the emergence of the 19th century Positivism. Since traditional
C). These ideas were embryonic in nature laying the foundations of the modern Social Sciences. Republic was considered as a central piece of Western philosophy. Socrates challenged the pagan traditions and talked about some order in the society, however music and intoxication remained the central piece of that ideal life with a concept of providing temporary relief to the individual. The moral ideals were created through dialogue between mythos (Religion)
"Slave morality is, for Nietzsche, clearly a decadent, unhealthy morality" and it is meant to relate to people putting across bitterness with regard to individuals controlling the social order. Slave morality is, in essence, focused on the well-being of humanity as a whole rather than just on the well-being of individuals in control. Nietzsche devised the concept of master morality as a means to provide the world with a more