According to Nietzsche, The first essay in his book “Genealogy of Morality’’ that there are two kinds of morals that is master morality and the slave morality. For master morality, good is the powerful beautiful, and glorious while bad is the weak and the ugly. Slave morality on the other hand call the masters evil for having no reservations on how they use their power over the weak. This therefore makes the compassionate and the respectful weak good. What Nietzsche seeks to establish is that the difference between the good and bad and the good and evil is a querry of where the assessment originates.
Nietzsche begins the session by explaining his dissatisfaction with the English psychologists who have attempted to explain the meaning of morality. The English psychologists claimed that “good” referred to unegoistic useful actions by the people who benefited from such actions. He says that to get the true meaning of good, one should look at the etymology of some of the words and phrases used to describe this concept. His approach to finding the meaning of good is that it was associated with nobility and badness with simpleness and the common man. This inspired his idea of good and bad and good and evil.
Good was initially used by the noble class to approve …show more content…
The nobble men are rich, powerful, healthy and happy and these are the good attributes. Whatever or whoever does not possess these attributes is seen as bad. On the other hand, the lower class developed a strong resentment towards the rich and called their deeds evil and their good. The difference thus lies in the assessment begins. The noble man develops the concept of “bad” as an after though just as the slave develops the concept of “good” as an
Nietzsche begins the session by explaining his dissatisfaction with the English psychologists who have attempted to explain the meaning of morality. The English psychologists claimed that “good” referred to unegoistic useful actions by the people who benefited from such actions. He says that to get the true meaning of good, one should look at the etymology of some of the words and phrases used to describe this concept. His approach to finding the meaning of good is that it was associated with nobility and badness with simpleness and the common man. This inspired his idea of good and bad and good and evil.
Good was initially used by the noble class to approve …show more content…
The nobble men are rich, powerful, healthy and happy and these are the good attributes. Whatever or whoever does not possess these attributes is seen as bad. On the other hand, the lower class developed a strong resentment towards the rich and called their deeds evil and their good. The difference thus lies in the assessment begins. The noble man develops the concept of “bad” as an after though just as the slave develops the concept of “good” as an