Genealogy

Christopher Cook SOSC 11300 Professor Kristyn Hara Prompt 3 Due May 2, 2015 Kant’s Morality, Nietzsche’s Sickness: One and the Same In On the Genealogy of Morality, Friedrich Nietzsche argues against what he calls “bad conscience” (Nietzsche, 56), or the suppression of instinct. He believes that people should act according to their will to power, an aggressive drive which all humans possess. Restraining themselves from exercising this will to power only causes people to turn its violent demands…

Question 3) In the first essay of On the Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche’s central concern is the slave revolt in morality. In this paper, I argue that Nietzsche does not think Marx an example of the slave revolt in morality as Nietzsche’s view of the slave class is different to Marx’s view of the proletarians as well as their differing suggestions in terms of imaginary revenge and physical revolution. To begin with, Nietzsche explains in the first essay that master morality is one associated…

Throughout the article, the authors are identifying the key components of zero tolerance and how through the popularity of zero tolerance and how it has been used through its context. In the article, Newburn and Jones begins by addressing the genealogy of zero tolerance. They suggest that zero tolerance has developed to into three different categories on how it…

promised Jewish Messiah and the fulfillment of Old Testament hopes and prophesies. For example, Matthew 1:1 states, “This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son Abraham.” From the beginning, Matthew writes to a Jewish audience and clearly states his purpose to depicts Jesus as the King of the Jews. He continues on to describe Jesus’ entire Jewish genealogy, which clearly portrays Jesus as Christ of the Jews. Additionally, in Matthew 27, Jesus stands before Pilate…

His writing are designed to provoke question or even to provoke doubts rather to answer basic philosophical questions. In this respect, Nietzsche has a particular fondness for use of metaphors, parabolas and aphorism. Nietzsche in his book ‘On Genealogy of morality’ sought to prove certain points about the morality by tracking its history, the way and which people are conceived of morality. Nietzsche takes the view that morality should be grounded in ascetic values….. Nietzsche believes that…

The bible is a guideline that gives people standards to live by while on this earth. It also shows people God’s love for his people. Because of the fall man was destined for domination which is separation from god. However, God loves his people so much he gave his son as a sacrifice for our sins. Furthermore, the bible gives a storyline that leads to the coming of Jesus, the resurrection of Jesus, and the return of Jesus. Moses the writer of the book of genesis explains how god created the…

Saint Lucy has multiple names such as, Saint Lucy or Saint Lucia. Saint Lucy was was born in the year of about 238 A.D. She was martyred around 304 A.D. according to the era of the rule of the Diocletianic Persecution. We celebrate her feast day on December 13 which is the time that Christians celebrate advent. Saint Lucy is known for being tortured and having her eyes gouged out because she didn’t deny her faith. Symbols that connect with Lucy are silver platters with two eyes atop of the…

In his second essay in the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche discusses the creditor/debtor relationship, the resulting bad conscience and most importantly the sovereign individual, “liberated again from morality of custom, autonomous and supra moral” (Nietzsche 59). In fact, Nietzsche further emphasizes that a sovereign person has a “power over oneself and over fate” (Nietzsche 60). I find Nietzsche’s description of this superhuman, sovereign state of mind both interesting and perplexing. I…

of Jesus’ genealogy. Both Matthew and Luke offer the family tree of Jesus, but the two Gospels trace the ancestry of Jesus in different…

saying philosophers are not men of knowledge. However, their job is find knowledge. He goes on to introduce the subject matter of the essay, “the origin of our moral prejudices.” Prior to the Genealogy of Morals, he had also written a book title Human. In this book a lot the same thoughts appear as in the Genealogy of Morals, and he is hoping over time these thought have become clearer. Nietzsche states he has pondered for a long period of time over the ideas of good and evil. With this, he…