Friedrich Nietzsche And Slave Morality

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In the early 19th a philosopher born in Roeken, Germany showed a promising career as a philosopher. His name is Friedrich Nietzsche. He attacked morality, especially Christianity by considering a convenient tool used between groups to extend control over each other. Nietzsche’s notion of power placed him as one of the most assertive philosopher in criticizing morality. He did not know how much his ideas would travel through time and space. He did not realize either, that his critics would bring to light an intrinsically undercover value system. After rejecting, suffering diseases and having loss of his family, Nietzsche realized that the 19th European time surrounding society was using moral for its own convenience. Those individuals suffering in pain had to ‘man it up’ and continue struggling for the sake of a hypocritical society. Nietzsche describes morality as a battle between the strong to keep control over the weak, and the organized weak against the strong. His concept of …show more content…
The slave morality, as Nietzsche expressed, is a useful tool for groups, which could identify their position alike subalterns under ruler’s control. Nietzsche portrayed Christianity as part of this popular morality. However, it can be applied to such minorities that continue gathering strength and organizing them to reach or gain more power aiming to reduce the master morality groups. Several examples of slave morality expression are the women’s equal rights, African Americans campaign against racism, Hispanic legalization issues and so forth. Nietzsche even used qualifiers to determine how Slave Morality works. He accused Slave Morality of using values to allure feelings, such as “sympathy, kindness, pity, patience, humility, and empathy” as tools to grasp power from the powerful. He assumed that kind of values working as a convenient tool could be adjusted to any beneficial strategy planned by any Slave Morality

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