Master-slave morality

Quote: "I felt myself in the presence of a superior man, one who, had he been a white man, I would have followed willingly and gladly in any honorable enterprise. Our difference of color was the only ground for difference of action." (The Heroic Slave-77) This reveals to the reader the importance to the white mans, the idea of being white and of racial purity. Although this man reveals that Madison was a smart and admirable man, he can not respect him because he is…

Jeffrey Kluger, Sula by Toni Morrison, The Help; director Tate Taylor are main sources based on the elements of morality. All of the elements of literature; shunning, moral entrepreneur, reciprocal altruism, empathy, ought, insider/outsider and moral grammar from “What Makes Us Moral” are expressed within the given sources where evil presides mostly in Sula and The help is based on morality as to numb the dishonorable. To begin with, Sula is based on African American lives…

Philosophy, by definition “is a study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence,” whereas moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy which focuses on and investigates the ideas of right and wrong as well as good and evil behavior. A German philosopher who researched and examined moral judgments was Friedrich Nietzsche. Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most influential German philosopher, who contributed greatly to the field of philosophy through his writings. One of his…

Critique logic of Aristotle understands of the nature(s) of the human soul. According to Aristotle, human nature refers to the unique characteristics in a human being. Some of these characteristics include the way of thinking, feeling and acting. These characteristics are in human beings, and they occur naturally, independently of the influence of culture. He believed that both body and soul are parts of human nature. The soul is the total of the operations of human beings. Aristotle tries to…

moral realism, the idea that moral facts are independent from the individual and have the ability to track a moral truth. Instead, values are created by the individual, “he makes himself by choosing his own morality, and his circumstances are such that he has no option other than to choose a morality” (Sartre 46). Sartre ambiguously floats somewhere in between the two. He argues those sources of moral objectivism such as God in the Christian faith prove to be “too broad in the scope to…

search for happiness making us unhappy? Both Nietzsche and Ahemnd analyze living by “happy scripts,” however, they disagree on the role that power plays. Nietzsche believes that oppression and suffering is good and necessary, because it stimulates slave revolts that build human growth; being “powerful” can turn into happiness. However aiming to live in life full of happiness is useless,…

Autonomy can be considered the right to govern your own body and decisions and with this principle Kant states it through arguing the principle of morality. The principle of morality is argued in three ways the first as acting though the maxim of our actions, through our will, were to become a universal law, second is the humanity principle where we act in such a way so as to not treat people as a means but as an end, and lastly act only so that our will could regard itself as giving universal…

Morality can exist in a world without God because of the objectivity of morals even through different time periods and cultures maintains, and genuinely good morality may easily come from non-religious motives. Certain immoral practices have been permissible in the past due to societal and cultural changes, but they are nonetheless still immoral. Morality does not simply follow clear cut rules, and historically immoral actions have happened egregiously. Ultimately, utilitarianism is what governs…

point, the first chapter brings up the point that there are different types of freedom: mental and physical. In the example of the slave owner and the slave, here is how they compare. The owner is physically free, but is mentally caught up with thoughts of perversion that consume, and reflect on his actions. As for the salve, he is physically chained to do work for his master, but since he has freedom of his mind, he does work out of love. In a sense, [his] inner freedom [was] the freedom…

In his On the Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche presents a potent challenge to morality by saying that Morality is one kind of ethical system that promoting narcosis, calm and passive. It is created by hatred priests who are envying of Nobles’ power and strength and horrified of pain, struggle, and restlessness. It is hindering human flourishing now but yet necessary to help us get into a better post-moral society, finally, enable human flourishing. Nietzsche unfolds his argument by firstly…