Friedrich Nietzsche's Revaluation Of Values

During Friedrich Nietzsche’s time, Western Europe’s faith in science was on the rise and the prominence of Christianity’s role was declining. He referred to this shift in faith through the phrase that “God is dead” and warned that the raising faith in science led to nihilism, since science did not introduce a new set of values to replace those of Christianity. Although Nietzsche rejected the values of Christianity, he considered the shift to nihilism a “bad to worse” situation because it is better to have beliefs in something rather than nothing at all. He proposed a revaluation of values, wanting to convert away from the Judeo-Christian views toward the values of Ancient Greece. He rejected the Christian focus of God, Heaven, and the soul …show more content…
In doing so, he rejected the views of Plato, making the argument that “Christianity is Platonism for the people”. In his revaluation of values, he argued that the Ancient Greek values of strength, power, sexuality, and competition should be considered as virtuous, rather than sinful. He claimed there to be two types of morality: master morality and slave morality. He compared Judeo-Christian values to slave morality and Ancient Greek values to master-morality. Master morality involves the distinction between good and bad. However, in slave morality, resentment plays a role in the creation of its values because hatred is created and converts the master’s idea of bad into evil. He argued that it is better to operate in master morality than in slave morality. In going beyond good and evil, one would find their “will to power”, or their natural life force. He focused on the sublimated will to power, where inner creativity is channeled. Nietzsche used the term “Übermensch” to describe this master race, in which one goes beyond good and evil. He, therefore, encouraged the phrase, “become who you