Ressentiment

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…

sovereign individual as a person “with the actual right to make promises, this master of a free will” (Nietzsche 59), if their free-will is limited by the selective number of feasible promises they choose to make? Or is free-will simply the careful manipulation of the self to make only those commitments that are easy to fulfill so as to create an illusion of being able to do as you please, when in actuality you’re doing so only by eliminating that which you cannot? Unlike Nietzsche, I believe…

Western history”, is one which is fueled by “ressentiment” (Nietzsche, xxi). Ressentiment, perhaps, can be argued to be similar in Nietzsche and Marx, however; the slaves in Nietzsche view express this ressentiment emotionally and not physically. Also, it is important to note that for Nietzsche, the slaves suffer as they are “inherently weak” and that their weakness is biological, which for Nietzsche, makes them “hopeless and irremediable” (Nietzsche, xxv). At the same time, Nietzsche makes it…

Nietzsche states that the nobles see themselves as naturally happy, while the slaves, feeling oppressed, distort reality to see the nobles as “evil”. The ideas mentioned lead to a shift in mindset from “good and bad” to “good and evil” as the slave morality became more powerful. This is due to the fact that the “ressentiment” festering in the slaves leads to the notion of “evil” which they associate with the nobles. With these definitions in place the word “good” falls as an afterthought to…

In the article “Good and Evil, Good and Bad” Friedrich Nietzsche argues that morality emerges when ressentiment becomes creative and begins to have values. He claims that ressentiment comes from the “slaves revolt” and that the nobles are the ones that have complete power. Society is very predictable; you are free to make your own future and that is called “conscience” but Nietzsche flips that around and it become “bad conscience” along with the feeling of guilt which comes from the relationship…

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…

Both Freud and Nietzsche not only analyse the state of guilt today, but also start by examining the origins of guilt. When examining the origins of guilt, their accounts are very similar, and revolve around key ideas such as pleasure, power, and aggression. It is not until the two give their thoughts on the present-day nature of guilt and it’s long-term prospects, that their thoughts on Guilt start to take two different and unique stances. Nietzsche looks further back than the current mindset,…

According to Nietzsche, The first essay in his book “Genealogy of Morality’’ that there are two kinds of morals that is master morality and the slave morality. For master morality, good is the powerful beautiful, and glorious while bad is the weak and the ugly. Slave morality on the other hand call the masters evil for having no reservations on how they use their power over the weak. This therefore makes the compassionate and the respectful weak good. What Nietzsche seeks to establish is that…

In the early 19th a philosopher born in Roeken, Germany showed a promising career as a philosopher. His name is Friedrich Nietzsche. He attacked morality, especially Christianity by considering a convenient tool used between groups to extend control over each other. Nietzsche’s notion of power placed him as one of the most assertive philosopher in criticizing morality. He did not know how much his ideas would travel through time and space. He did not realize either, that his critics would bring…

Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche is a compilation of critiques to which he questions moral judgements and its genealogical origin. In Nietzsche’s first essay, he refers to two different types of morality. The first being master morality and the second being slave morality. Firstly, the master morality is created by the master or the one who is obstinate. Masters were to free to think and do what they want, whereas, slaves were subordinate and follow the master. To Nietzsche, being a master is…