Friedrich Nietzsche's On The Genealogy Of Moral

Philosophy, by definition “is a study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence,” whereas moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy which focuses on and investigates the ideas of right and wrong as well as good and evil behavior. A German philosopher who researched and examined moral judgments was Friedrich Nietzsche. Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most influential German philosopher, who contributed greatly to the field of philosophy through his writings. One of his most important piece of work of all time is the “On the Genealogy of Morals.” On the Genealogy of Morals is a three piece essay, where Friedrich Nietzsche encourages us to use new set of philosophical tools and disregard the old beliefs. In his first essay, Nietzsche talks about what Good and Bad and Good and Evil. He says that each word has a different meaning depending on who you ask. He asks the reader to imagine a society with two groups, noble class and lower class. For instance, a person from the noble may have a …show more content…
He argues that the history of the word guilt has nothing to do with immorality and punishment was not a result of guilt. Nietzsche gives an example of the lender and a borrower. If someone failed pay off a loan, the pleasure of harming his debtor, by punishing them. This punishment was necessary, so that the debtor does not make the same mistake twice. Nietzsche believes the reason god figures were created to insure that no suffering ever went unnoticed. Today guilt is defined as accountability and responsibility for a crime or action that is bad or wrong. Nietzsche says bad conscience came in society when from the concept of hunter-gathere. We says when we did not “we had to rely on our conscious mind rather than our unconscious instincts.” As a result, our animal instincts comes to