According to Webster’s dictionary nihilism is: “the belief that traditional morals, ideas, beliefs, etc., have no worth or value” and also: “the belief that a society's political and social institutions are so bad that they should be destroyed”. This idea is one of the leading arguments as to why Nietzsche chose to physically write about books like “Beyond Good and Evil”, and “Genealogy of Morals”. Through some of these reading one may be able to evaluate some of the most intriguing ideas in society. There are terms such as “ressentiment” and this idea that there must be a “revaluation of morals”. One will be able to evaluate exactly what these terms represent, and the complexity of them also being able to make connections to the ruling theme
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Now although these words are closely related the words that Nietzsche uses to describe his arguments are extremely different in meaning. This word expands on the later ideas of “an attempt to rise above the slave morality that contrast good and evil, it also signifies a very broad attack on ‘faith in opposite values.(11)’” If one were to define the differences between resentment and ressentiment one would be able to characterize the notion that ressentiment carries a heavier burden. There is so much more bitterness and rage associated with the word. There isn’t a specific translation in German for that word because it is French (Kauffman 5). When it comes to the formation of ressentiment “The slave revolt in morality begins when ressentiment itself becomes creative and gives birth to values” (36). This idea of slave morality is negative because it makes a person deny the differences in various things. The effects of slave morality is the person that has it looks at anything that opposes it (its adversary), and automatically says no to it. When it comes to the idea of master morality, it doesn’t focus on the externals. Master morality involves misrepresentation of the truth on a lighter …show more content…
The man is someone who is unable to foster the things that may be negative such as pain, schemes, etc. Nietzsche defines the man who is filled with ressentiment more cleaver because he has to rely on patience, evil is basic to him. As the Nobel man defines himself as good, the man of ressentiment calls it evil. Nietzsche calls us to revaluate our morals because the idealism that one may have has it all wrong. He gives the example of Rome versus the Jews. He deemed Rome as being noble. The Romans were strong and he expresses that no one else was stronger. When it came to the Jews a person’s moral may deem the as weak, and inferior, but this is why one must reevaluate his morals. The Jews “…were the priestly nation of resentiment par excellence, in whom there dwelt an unequaled popular-moral genius…” (53). Now one may assume that the Jews were the weaker vessel but they were not. It is time to make a new or revised
Now although these words are closely related the words that Nietzsche uses to describe his arguments are extremely different in meaning. This word expands on the later ideas of “an attempt to rise above the slave morality that contrast good and evil, it also signifies a very broad attack on ‘faith in opposite values.(11)’” If one were to define the differences between resentment and ressentiment one would be able to characterize the notion that ressentiment carries a heavier burden. There is so much more bitterness and rage associated with the word. There isn’t a specific translation in German for that word because it is French (Kauffman 5). When it comes to the formation of ressentiment “The slave revolt in morality begins when ressentiment itself becomes creative and gives birth to values” (36). This idea of slave morality is negative because it makes a person deny the differences in various things. The effects of slave morality is the person that has it looks at anything that opposes it (its adversary), and automatically says no to it. When it comes to the idea of master morality, it doesn’t focus on the externals. Master morality involves misrepresentation of the truth on a lighter …show more content…
The man is someone who is unable to foster the things that may be negative such as pain, schemes, etc. Nietzsche defines the man who is filled with ressentiment more cleaver because he has to rely on patience, evil is basic to him. As the Nobel man defines himself as good, the man of ressentiment calls it evil. Nietzsche calls us to revaluate our morals because the idealism that one may have has it all wrong. He gives the example of Rome versus the Jews. He deemed Rome as being noble. The Romans were strong and he expresses that no one else was stronger. When it came to the Jews a person’s moral may deem the as weak, and inferior, but this is why one must reevaluate his morals. The Jews “…were the priestly nation of resentiment par excellence, in whom there dwelt an unequaled popular-moral genius…” (53). Now one may assume that the Jews were the weaker vessel but they were not. It is time to make a new or revised