Nietzsche The Genealogy Of Morality Analysis

The human condition is inevitable in existence. It cannot be avoided, as hard as one may try. It is the beginning, the end, and all the meaningful experiences in the middle. No one is exempt. Everybody lies, and everybody dies… If the human condition applies to everyone, how and more importantly, why are people so different? Why are people motivated by different things? How does faith tie into all of this? Is there really purpose in life? Growth, aspiration, and mortality are three aspects in particular, of the human condition, that share a direct relationship with what makes each individual person unique. “Everybody dies.” This statement alone generalizes death. Everyone will return to dust in the same way. It’s “learning how to die” that demonstrates …show more content…
“The thought of being in God’s constant debt became his new instrument of torture.” This is a statement pulled directly from the text, suggesting that man created a perfect God to subconsciously always have something greater than himself to try and live up to. It is an endless, and impossible task and it ties directly to aspiration. Aspirations are often times discouraging. When one sets a goal, and fails to achieve it, it can be very disheartening depending on the situation. Also pulled directly from “The Genealogy of Morals”... “Man with his need for self-torture, his sublimated cruelty resulting from the cooping up of his animal nature within a polity, invented bad conscience in order to hurt himself, after the blocking of the more natural outlet of his cruelty. Then this guilt-ridden man seized upon religion in order to exacerbate his self-torment to the utmost.” Taking this into consideration, if you look at this from a “logical fallacy” perspective, do humans set goals (knowing that most times they’ll inevitably fail) to make themselves