Throughout Nietzsche’s On The Genealogy of Morality, he takes a speculative trip throughout time to determine the drastic change in the morals of society. In his analysis he address the ascetic ideals as the bedrock that lead to the ultimate change of society to slave morality from master morality. The ascetic ideals also set up a vicious cycle to spread the “sickness” throughout the population. Nietzsche notes that a key problem of the ascetic ideals is it’s infectious nature. The best response he sees his through his idea of “perspectivism”. With Nietzsche’s answer, he addresses the same ideal to a “more noble” life in a way that Augustine saw absolute faith as way to salvation. However, there two ideas have several differences.
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Nietzsche noted that the ascetic ideals serve to deceive the weak into thinking they are strong. (III:13) He also shows how the ascetic ideals start in the weakest and are somehow able to infect the healthy. This due to the weak being in the slave mentality, and their ressentiment finding blame in those less weak for their misfortune. With this blame placed upon the “healthy”, if they aren’t completely self-possessed and secure they will ultimately succumb to the guilt and be sucked into the slave morality and thus the ascetic ideals in some way. (III:14) A strong point of Nietzsche that ultimately leads to the weak becoming sick are in the internalization of our animal instincts. As seen in the previous treatise, this internalization lead to making the human mind a place that needed to be conquered and survived. It is this that Nietzsche sees as a blessing that separates us from lower animals. (III:13) However, it is the weak that see this internal struggle as suffering and thus turn to the ascetic ideals as a way to cope. Ultimately this starts the infection of the ascetic ideals, which will travel through all the healthy while promoting a life that despises all of life’s
For Nietzsche, …show more content…
Nietzsche noted that the ascetic ideals serve to deceive the weak into thinking they are strong. (III:13) He also shows how the ascetic ideals start in the weakest and are somehow able to infect the healthy. This due to the weak being in the slave mentality, and their ressentiment finding blame in those less weak for their misfortune. With this blame placed upon the “healthy”, if they aren’t completely self-possessed and secure they will ultimately succumb to the guilt and be sucked into the slave morality and thus the ascetic ideals in some way. (III:14) A strong point of Nietzsche that ultimately leads to the weak becoming sick are in the internalization of our animal instincts. As seen in the previous treatise, this internalization lead to making the human mind a place that needed to be conquered and survived. It is this that Nietzsche sees as a blessing that separates us from lower animals. (III:13) However, it is the weak that see this internal struggle as suffering and thus turn to the ascetic ideals as a way to cope. Ultimately this starts the infection of the ascetic ideals, which will travel through all the healthy while promoting a life that despises all of life’s