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Nietzche's Position on God
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- God doesn't matter anymore in the way people live
- moving into an era that doesn't accept notion of God - God doesn't make a difference in people's lives - Have to learn to live in a world where God is no longer at the center |
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Nietzche's Slave Morality
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- Wants to reject slave morality!
- Calls it slave morality b/c it is a plot - poor stupid masses resent superiority. Bottom is always great number. - Bottom people came up w technique for making themselves dominant (Christian morality) - Slave morality is Christian morality (be humble, charitable, equality) Christian Morality - privileges the inferior, gives them position of power, creating a complete inversion compared to that of ancient Greece/Rome - we can explain how it came about that slave morality became superior, but doesn't mean it is |
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Nietzsche's Master Morality
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- We want to leave behind slave morality and move to master morality
- Nietzsche wants to take us away from slave morality and move us to master morality, what new world is going to look like Master Morality - Aristocracy (honor, courage, valor, hierarchy) |
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Nietzsche's Culture and Vitality
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- Culture & Vitality is a basic opposition
- emphasis in culture is in opposition w/ the vital life (pg. 178) - tension that is present throughout Nietzsche's writing vitality - fullness of life. Say "yes" to life. Culture - makes us dull, less vibrant ex. slave morality (christianity). This suppresses what is natural and good in human beings. Nietzsche was weak/sickly as an indiv, so he devoted himself to reading/studying (culture). He blames his poor eyesight on emphasis of books as opposed to living. |
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Nietzsche and Dionysus
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- Dionysus is the God of drink pg 178
- losing oneself in some kind of frenzy - God of the highest art form in the community: tragedy - Nietzsche celebrates Dionysus b/c he represents culture and vitality |
