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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 morality according to Nietzsche make a person a pessimist. Negative attitude towards life makes life to be difficult. Nietzsche is against the slave morality as it makes an individual to be full of condemnation. He is of the perspective that life is good. Therefore, he finds it difficult to agree with morality that he sees as perpetrating of sorrows. According to Nietzsche, the people who have slave morality cannot achieve genuine happiness.
The values that the people who hold slave morality are to ease their suffering, he argues. Nietzsche opposition of the slave morality shows some bias. This is because he is unable to understand the virtues of those he considers practicing slave morality. According to Nietzsche qualities like patience, humility, warm heart, pity and self-sacrificing are not noble. He is skeptical of this value because he finds them in those, in slave morality.
The opposition that Nietzsche holds against the slave morality is subjective. This...
In real life, these qualities enhance life. He considers slave morality to be anti-life and thus, stands against it. The example of people with the slave morality according to Nietzsche is the Christians.
The highest type of morality
According to Nietzsche the superman is the highest form of morality. The superman is that person who is beyond the human beings. He experiments with himself and has a high level of curiosity. According to Nietzsche this is a person who is willing to abandon that which is common place and familiar. The superman does not settle with the beliefs he seeks to know more. The superman is willing to perish in his endeavors. Further, he does not have a quilt consciousness. He is a risk taker and works according to his own rules. This type of morality is what Nietzsche considers being at the top of all other moralities.
Conclusion
The philosophical thoughts of Nietzsche on morality are highly controversial. They have a limitation in their applicability within the context contemporary world. However, they form a valuable foundation for philosophical analysis of morals. In an era awash with philosophical analyses and studies, his philosophical thoughts, ideas and reasoning form a basis for the conduction of further studies.
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