On the Genealogy of Morality

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…

he claimed to have brought “the foundations of morality” to live (p. 151). Schopenhauer believed that humans acts are based (or come forth from) on three particular moral values: morally indifferent, morally reprehensible, or possess moral worth (p. 171-172). Moreover, he argues that all human actions are intentional and directed to…

include Thus Spoke Zarathustra and The Anti-Christ respectfully. This paper will compare how both Nietzsche and Tocqueville viewed morality especially when inspired from religion (relying especially on Christianity). It will first give opinions that both had pertaining towards religion. The essay provide a heavy dose on what both philosophers thought on the concept of morality within religion. Government policies and laws shouldn’t reflect rules and laws inscribed within religious doctrines,…

belief in one or more meaningful aspects of life. In the book European Nihilism he argues that he is not replacing God with nothing, but rather that he regards ‘European nihilism’ as an ‘in-between state’ that is necessary for getting beyond Christian morality. This is also where the phrase “god is dead” came from. While book two goes over the idea of free will and how he believes it is idiotic and an error of man. "And many a one can command himself, but still sorely lacketh self-obedience, man…

philosophers have argued and tried to put together a kind of framework for morality in humans. There are men like Kant who in the 18th century tried to instill a universal law for everyone and then there are men like Nietzsche who came in the 19th century and tried to impair humankind's thoughts on morality as a whole. In Kant's foundation of work he introduces his categorical imperative as a universal moral law. In nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche later goes on the offensive…

He prefers to focus on the intention of the action rather than looking at the action itself making this is a common misconception of morality. “The origin of an action was interpreted in the most definite sense of origin in an intention; one came to agree that the value of an action lat in the value of an intention” (BGE 32). Nietzsche tries to articulate the Christian saying “know thyself”…

irrationalism as they pertain to the prince is in consonance with the idea of Nietzsche’s master morality. The urge for power takes precedence in both views. That is the reason they advocate for a morality where power can be fully expressed. In order to still be in office or power, the ruler in Machiavelli’s The Prince should use any means ‘as the end justifies the means’ to shield the most ignored morality and all its traditional values. The two thinkers have a negative disposition towards…

In his second essay in the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche discusses the creditor/debtor relationship, the resulting bad conscience and most importantly the sovereign individual, “liberated again from morality of custom, autonomous and supra moral” (Nietzsche 59). In fact, Nietzsche further emphasizes that a sovereign person has a “power over oneself and over fate” (Nietzsche 60). I find Nietzsche’s description of this superhuman, sovereign state of mind both interesting and perplexing. I…

Philosophy is plagued by problem of split of theoretical and practical ideas. Just because it makes sense and works with variables held constant, or simplified models Ceterus Paribus. This truly manifests in the transition to the real world where things are not so simply, application of theoreticals never work the way they are intended. Both Nietzsche and Sartre suffer in these regards, existentialism is not designed to be fully adopted. What, if any ideas can even survive the conversion from…

In Essay I of Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals, ‘Good and Evil’, ‘Good and Bad’, Nietzsche attempts to study the origin of contemporary morality by examining the conditions and circumstances by which the values of morals have emerged. This investigation of his, lead him to conclude that the morals that exist in us now, are not inherent in us, but were caused by a “slave revolt” in morality through the feeling of ressentiment. In this essay, I will be discussing what ressentiment is, why and…