Nietzsche Cardinal Virtues Analysis

Goodness: Virtue thus came to mean, not moral goodness in itself considered, but goodness militant and triumphant. Virtue then, in its more usual sense at the present time, denotes conduct in accordance with the right, or with the fitness of things, on the part of one who has the power to do otherwise. But in this sense there are few, if any, perfectly virtuous men. There are criterions to recognize cardinal virtues: there are fitnesses and duties appertaining, first, to one's own being, nature, capacities, and needs; secondly, to his relations to his fellow-beings; thirdly, to his disposition and conduct with reference to external objects and events beyond his control; and fourthly, to his arrangement, disposal, and use of objects under his …show more content…
Nietzsche's solution is changing this morality against instincts to a morality in favour of them, naming the process of transvaluation of Christian values.
Nietzsche modifies his definition: that transvaluation be as what he was defined, but he sees the need of new values, and “new values” is not necessarily opposite of “ancient values”, it is enough be different. In summa, Nietzsche preaches for revision of Christian morality, not necessarily in direction to opposite moral values, immorality.
Nietzsche uses several times “immorality,” he confounds himself and consequently confounds the reader. Observing that theologians operate “transvaluation” of true and false, that is, they transform in false what is true, Nietzsche make evident that the concepts should be valued by changing the value “true or false,” that is, what is true should be valued as false, and vice-versa, not that the concepts should be considered by its inversion, its contraries. Following, Nietzsche asserts the need of new values: if what is true by transvaluation one considers false, then it is necessary a new concept