On the Genealogy of Morality

unparalleled scale of human suffering during World War I (then known as the Great War) and World War II had a profound impact on the notion of punishment. The unprecedented tragedy paved way for a new outlook on morality and justice regarding the crimes committed. The works On the Genealogy of Morality, Discipline and Punish, and Eichmann in Jerusalem by Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, and Hannah Arendt respectively all cover the idea of punishment as it follows a common thread of power.…

provide answers to these inquiries are Friedrich Nietzsche and Saint Anselm. In their respective works, On the Genealogy of Morals and Cur Deus Homo, both authors demonstrate vastly different perspectives on the consequential topics of debt and forgiveness, yet similar themes are interwoven throughout their writings. On Nietzsche’s account, debt plays an instrumental role in the genealogy…

the origin of morality and he offers his explanation of it. His knowledge of philology really helps his essay by offering a different insight of morality and by providing evidence to his claims. Although Nietzsche states that previous attempts at figuring out the origin are “by nature unhistorical.” The history he uses, however, is no better. He focuses solely on the Jews’ revolt against the Romans during the first century. Nietzsche uses a certain time in history to explain morality. That is…

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…

Species and The Descent of Man, generated scientific and religious debates that eventually led to the famous Scopes Trial and issues of creationism versus evolution. Friedrich Nietzsche’s, On the Genealogy of Morals and The Gay Science, proclaimed, “God is dead” and put forth his modernist ideas on morality. These three writers…

#1: In Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morality", Nietzsche explicates what he means when he writes, "To be incapable of taking one's enemies, one's accidents, even one's misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong, full natures…", by developing two distinct sets of moral value systems. The Master-Slave morality is the central theme in his work on moral genealogy. For Nietzsche, a particular morality is inseparable from the particular culture that creates…

So, if you go back far enough in the history of our species, you can find a common ancestor between any two people. We have 7 billion people in the world. Every person has two parents, and every one of them had two parents, every one of them had two parents. If you keep going back, that’s like trillions of people in the world. But in the past there weren’t trillions of people in the world. So how do you get trillions of parents but you only had a fraction of the population that we have today?…

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…

Nietzsche’s work, The Genealogy of Morality, he states that the existence of laws establishes what is just and unjust within a given society (Nietzsche 1280; sec 12). Thus, there does not seem to be anything explicitly virtuous for justice. In reference to the Republic, I will argue Socrates and Thrasymachus have different views on justice and will ultimately disagree with each other on Nietzsche 's conception of justice. Nietzsche’s entire work is trying to dissect morality from its origins.…

make a truly moral decision, and Nietzsche presents how to become a true individual, they both make an attempt to replace traditional morality with their belief of authenticity. “You’re free, choose, that is, invent” said Sartre, showing his idea on how he thinks we should make decisions. In this essay, I will compare the similarity of their ideas towards human morality and show how Nietzsche’s belief can be superior to Satres. Existentialism and Human Emotion by Sartre presents the idea of…