nietche 2

Question 1

Explain Nietzsche’s views regarding memory and forgetfulness.

Answer 1

Active forgetfulness is what helps us fight resentement (which holds onto memory) You can either hold onto it or you can choose to let it go.

We developed by developing the memory and later we had to be taught how to look in the future.

Question 2

2. Why is Nietzsche concerned with “the right to make promises”?

Answer 2

in order to keep them you must have a memory.

Question 3

3. What is a “bad conscience”? How is it different from a regular conscience?

Answer 3

Bad concience= guilty concious.
We feel guilt about everything… so much that we don’t realize. This is a problem.
This is developed is because we take pleasure through our own sense of guilt that we are causing ourselves pain
Regular: still recognises wrong doing, but make up for it, but not by feeling guilty. Active rather than reactive!

Question 4

4. According to Nietzsche, what cause motivated the origin of punishment?

Answer 4

the pleasure of cruelty… being able to exert power over another. Pleasure of suffering hasn’t gone away.

Question 5

5. Carefully explain the creditor/debtor relationship and its importance to Nietzsche.

Answer 5

Debtor must remember promise, or creditor can do whatever he wants to to the debtor if he doesn’t pay back. But the punishment doesn’t get the money back. we do this because cruelty is a pleasure.

Question 6

6. Explain the relationship between punishment and pleasure.

Answer 6

raising you above someone else

Question 7

7. What aspect of suffering does Nietzsche think causes the most difficulty for his contemporaries?

Answer 7

the fact that there is no meaning behind the suffering. So we try to answer why we suffer.

Question 8

morality orgin

Answer 8

began between creditor and debtor

Question 9

What function does Nietzsche’s story about the move from our pre-human to our human state teach us about the origins of the bad conscience?

Answer 9

We were more animalistic and force into communities that all of a sudden we had restrictions placed on us

Question 10

7. What function does Nietzsche’s story about the community’s relationship to its ancestors
   teach us about the origins of gods?

Answer 10

they respected ancestors with festivals, sacrifices ect. the longer you go the bigger society gets the bigger the ancestors get until we veiw them as Gods

Question 11

8. Why is the bad conscience an illness for Nietzsche? How does it make us sick?

Answer 11

This limits and inhibits our creativity and restricts us