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Question 1

. Key question for the entire First Essay: What is the difference between “good and bad” and “good and evil”?

Answer 1

"the good themselves named themselves"
Good: powerful, rich, comanding
Bad: plain, common, and low
jews reversed this and created:
Good:plain and common
Evil: powerful rich, comanding

Question 2

2. What is the relationship between political superiority and superiority of soul?

Answer 2

they are one in the same. you are more powerful that way and you are more superior. they define what is good and bad.

Question 3

3. What is the difference between the knightly-aristocratic value system and the priestly value system?

Answer 3

good: noble, happy. beloved of god

preistly (jews): wretched, poor lonely alone are the good

Question 4

4. What does Nietzsche mean by “the slave revolt in morality”? What is this revolt?
   Who started it? Who inherited it?

Answer 4

Jews/ Christianity vs aristocracy
Jew started the revolution
changed what is good and bad. they fought by attacking the others values.
spiritual revenge, and it was so strong we can’t even see it.

Question 5

5. What is ressentiment? What are the characteristics of a moral system originating in ressentiment?

Answer 5

it is resentment: when people restrict you from doing things you want to do. These people are the ones who let it sit and fester.
mack being able to act as core of morality. It is the immagined revenge to compensate lack of ability to act. The imagine/ desire the opposite where no’s become yeses.

Question 6

6. Explain the meaning of Nietzsche’s analogy of lambs and birds of prey.7. Explain the “fearful struggle” that Nietzsche describes in Chapter 16. Who or what is
   struggling? How is this struggle played out? What are the most important results of this struggle?

Answer 6

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