Friedrich Nietze’s systematic work titled On the Genealogy of morals comprises three essays that explicitly question, as well as critique, the value of people’s moral judgments on the basis of a genealogical approach whereby he investigates the origins and the significance of people’s diverse moral concepts. Nietzsche sees morality as something that embodies a system of faults that humans have integrated into their basic ways of feeling, thinking, and living; thus a strong symbol of how people ignore themselves and their world. In this sustained critique, with respect to morality, various topics, ideas, and themes are represented; and even though some of these ideas do contrast, Nietzsche’s level of cohesiveness in his evaluation of morality is overwhelming.
The first of the three essays is titled ‘Good and Evil’, ‘Good and Bad’; this essays presents Nietzsche’s contrast of what he terms as slave morality and master morality. Master morality emerged as a creation of the healthy, strong, and the free. This category of people regarded their own happiness and pleasure as a fine thing and therefore developed this term to denote it (65). By contrast, they regarded the enslaved, the weak, and the unhealthy, as bad …show more content…
This is easily, according to Nietzsche, noticeable in their works which frequently give out sickly odors of asceticism and morality. He seems particularly prescient of the literature trends of the past century that human beings have need for will, goals, and even nothingness; and therefore concludes that to will is almost a basic necessity as he states that “man would rather will nothingness than not will.” (85). Nietzsche’s major ideas in this part are asceticism and morality, which he critiques, and ‘will’, of which he sees as an essentiality for every
The first of the three essays is titled ‘Good and Evil’, ‘Good and Bad’; this essays presents Nietzsche’s contrast of what he terms as slave morality and master morality. Master morality emerged as a creation of the healthy, strong, and the free. This category of people regarded their own happiness and pleasure as a fine thing and therefore developed this term to denote it (65). By contrast, they regarded the enslaved, the weak, and the unhealthy, as bad …show more content…
This is easily, according to Nietzsche, noticeable in their works which frequently give out sickly odors of asceticism and morality. He seems particularly prescient of the literature trends of the past century that human beings have need for will, goals, and even nothingness; and therefore concludes that to will is almost a basic necessity as he states that “man would rather will nothingness than not will.” (85). Nietzsche’s major ideas in this part are asceticism and morality, which he critiques, and ‘will’, of which he sees as an essentiality for every