Beyond Good and Evil

Question 1

How do those with a noble mindset feel about those with a slavish mindset?

Answer 1

They despise them, because the noble are proud, and the slavish are what the noble is not

Question 2

What is another way Nietzsche says we can say good and bad?

Answer 2

Noble and contemptible

Question 3

What is good or bad for the noble man?

Answer 3

Good: what is pleasurable, eg power, courage, knowledge, bad is the opposite of this
Bad: judges value by what is harmful to himself (not over-selfless)

Question 4

Do noble men do things for others?

Answer 4

Yes, due to an excess of power, but not out of pity

Question 5

Why are certain actions praised? (a popular ethical question)

Answer 5

The noble man experiences itself as determining values

Question 6

What kind of person is the slavish man?

Answer 6

Oppressed, unfree, suffering, violated

Question 7

Why was there a slave revolution of morality?

Answer 7

Because they haven’t got everything they wanted , they form a pessimistic suspicion about the whole condition of men, accompanied by condemnation. The powerful would not feel like this, it is not compatible with their virtues.

Question 8

What do slavish men think of the noble?

Answer 8

That they are not genuinely happy (so they create reverse morality eg abstinence)

Question 9

What type of morality did Nietzsche say the slavish man has?

Answer 9

Morality of utility (since morals are crafted to ease the existence of their suffering, eg friendliness, humility)

Question 10

Who inspires fear?

Answer 10

To slaves: the evil
To masters: the good

Question 11

What do the noble see as good?

Answer 11

The passions (love), artful and enthusiatic reverence and devotion

Question 12

What do the slavish see as good?

Answer 12

Men being good-natured, easily decieved, even slightly stupid
(this contrasts the evil, which are dangerous, the good cannot be dangerous)

Question 13

Where do slavish and master morals exist?

Answer 13

-Across castes (the oppressed and the artistocrats)
-Within a single soul
-Within castes, different to necessary social order

Question 14

What morality do the Christians have?

Answer 14

Slavish
Lacks pleasure and pride
Can’t take power on this earth, so create a morality that

Question 15

Does nthe slavish minset have anything to do with right or wrong?

Answer 15

No, it is an obssession with the new ‘truth’ that bests suits them- gives them power
Similar to Kant or Spinoza
Imposes and incorporates ones own form into their moal structure
It is about overcoming the current state of man

Question 16

What is the will to power?

Answer 16

The driving force of everything
Life itself (will to life as consequence, self-preservation, not the cardinal instinct)
A living thing seeks to discharge itself
Philosophers are motivated by this over
Perspectivism, no set truth

Question 17

What is the atomistic need of philosophers?

Answer 17

To find one truth, one god, one drive
It is a structural language issue
The will is a collection of instincts and drives

Question 18

What is Kaufmann’s criticism?

Answer 18

His treatment of women is overly poor

Question 19

What is Deleuze’s criticism?

Answer 19

We need a multiplicty of values, not just dichotomy

Question 20

What was Camus’?

Answer 20

The basis of all life should be seen as more compassionate than the will to power

Question 21

What is a general concern about the will to power?

Answer 21

Encourages something choatic, authoritarian, if we strive to unleash the will to power, or fully accept the will to power

Question 22

Levinas’?

Answer 22

We should have responsibility to others

Question 23

What is a general criticism of master v slave morals?

Answer 23

There should be an objective moral standard, Scheler, Strauss