Nietzsche Slave Morality

However, Nietzsche’s critique of slave morality is not accurate enough. According to Maudemarie and Dudrick (2007), the core essence of slave morality is utility, which encourages everyone to obey to the principles of goodness. Slave morality defines the essences of master morality as evil and suggests that the goodness, such as kindness, humility, and sympathy, such as highlighted and manifested by the society. One of the objectives of slave morality is to moderate the conflicts within the society Philippa (1994). In the values of slave morality, the conflicts and contradictions between the strong and weak should not be intensified or manifested. On the contrary, coordination and utility are the approaches for both sides to achieve their jointed interests. Slave morality considers that hard and aggressive confrontation could not enable everyone, especially for the weak, to achieve goal and interest while the goodness can (Philippa, 2001). The goodness is relevant to equality, harmony, fairness, and peace, which can provide a favorable environment for the weak to survive and develop. In the view of the supporters of slave morality, because the strong are only the minority and the weak are the majority, the weak are able to gain power by …show more content…
Nietzsche’s critique of slave critique is of certain accuracy because slave morality can result in pessimism, and reproduction of oppression and slave. However, to some extent, he also fails to realize that slave morality can contribute to the utility and harmony of the society because slave morality can promote individuals to treat with each other with goodness and propose solving the contradictions and conflicts in a tolerant and good way. These two positions could be reconciled of the morals could not reevaluated in a new sociocultural