Morality is one of the most controversial subjects to understand because there is no clear right or wrong answer. It can be one way for somebody and completely different for someone else living in the same area. A majority of people chose their morality based off society or how other people tell them it should be. These people never question why things are considered morally good and evil, rather they unquestionably accepted the values of what’s good and evil dominant in their society. Sigmund Freud’s writing Civilization and its Discontents and Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Genealogy of Morals” are two people who questioned where morality comes from and why it is the way it is. They both rejected the idea that morality is a natural element created
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This characteristic of being noble then coincided with what it meant to be good. With a strong definition of the eyes of the nobility with what good was they were able to define the opposite. Bad was also invented by the noble to define and describe everything that was not the same as them. They declared those people as lesser in their eyes just because they did not have the same social stature as themselves. “I found they all led back to the same conceptual transformation – that everywhere ‘noble,’ ‘aristocratic’ in the social sense, is the basic concept from which ‘good’ in the sense of ‘with aristocratic soul,’ ‘noble,’ ‘with a soul of high order,’ ‘with a privileged soul’ necessarily developed: a development which always runs parallel with that there in which ‘common,’ ‘plebeian,’ ‘low’ are finally transformed in the concept ‘bad’”(1:4). Nietzsche understood this to be a noble morality that derived from strength and self-proclamation of the nobility. What the nobility called good was traits that only they could attain and were strong in. The good of noble morality was created inwardly by looking at commonality of all the wealthy and influential people. After a foundation for good was established, they labeled everything that was not them as bad. Noble morality was created within itself through declaring their strong traits as good then …show more content…
Through slave morality a sense of guilt came within and Nietzsche looked through history to find its origin. He concluded that guilt first derived from the relationship between the creditor and debtor. The relationship between these two parties of one of the greatest developments humankind took in creating social values. This relationship can vividly be seen in respect with religion especially with Christianity. “The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth” (2:20). From the moment we are born as humans we are instantly in an unsurmountable amount of debt to God. Because he sacrificed himself for the betterment of society as a whole each individual on earth was given life because of him. No matter what humans do to try to even out the debt towards our creditor, we are unable to match his loan of creation. This feeling of guilt from the instant we are born causes the feeling to keep growing as time goes on. For some people this guilt is too much, and it eats away at their insides until they question religion entirely. For Nietzsche religion is not an outlet for our sins and a templet for our morals, but instead it is a burden that you must
This characteristic of being noble then coincided with what it meant to be good. With a strong definition of the eyes of the nobility with what good was they were able to define the opposite. Bad was also invented by the noble to define and describe everything that was not the same as them. They declared those people as lesser in their eyes just because they did not have the same social stature as themselves. “I found they all led back to the same conceptual transformation – that everywhere ‘noble,’ ‘aristocratic’ in the social sense, is the basic concept from which ‘good’ in the sense of ‘with aristocratic soul,’ ‘noble,’ ‘with a soul of high order,’ ‘with a privileged soul’ necessarily developed: a development which always runs parallel with that there in which ‘common,’ ‘plebeian,’ ‘low’ are finally transformed in the concept ‘bad’”(1:4). Nietzsche understood this to be a noble morality that derived from strength and self-proclamation of the nobility. What the nobility called good was traits that only they could attain and were strong in. The good of noble morality was created inwardly by looking at commonality of all the wealthy and influential people. After a foundation for good was established, they labeled everything that was not them as bad. Noble morality was created within itself through declaring their strong traits as good then …show more content…
Through slave morality a sense of guilt came within and Nietzsche looked through history to find its origin. He concluded that guilt first derived from the relationship between the creditor and debtor. The relationship between these two parties of one of the greatest developments humankind took in creating social values. This relationship can vividly be seen in respect with religion especially with Christianity. “The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth” (2:20). From the moment we are born as humans we are instantly in an unsurmountable amount of debt to God. Because he sacrificed himself for the betterment of society as a whole each individual on earth was given life because of him. No matter what humans do to try to even out the debt towards our creditor, we are unable to match his loan of creation. This feeling of guilt from the instant we are born causes the feeling to keep growing as time goes on. For some people this guilt is too much, and it eats away at their insides until they question religion entirely. For Nietzsche religion is not an outlet for our sins and a templet for our morals, but instead it is a burden that you must