Nietzche On the Genealogy of Morals Flashcards
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Preface
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- Introduces knowing
- Genealogy is an attempt to investigate knowledge
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Utilitarianism
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- Interested in moral psychology
- Morality is utility
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Morality
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- English moralists are inept
- Lively riddle is the origins of morality
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Disagrees with Utilitarianism
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- Finds lacking failure to recognize their drive is itself a historical contingency
- Investment in utility is product of broader societal historical sources
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Deeper Account of Morality
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- Offering an account of origin, not history
- Examining hist and psycho forces
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Where Does Goodness Come From?
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- The noble elites had to designate themselves as good
- The bad were common
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Pathos of Distance
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- Good soul was originally indifferent to those below them
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Priestly Type
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- Distinct because purity is excellence
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Criticisms of the Priestly Type
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- Ascetic remedies for own suffering allows them to promote purity and goodness
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Slave Morality
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- Brithed from priestly purity and asceticism
- Is all that is not priestly type, what they are not
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Priestly Values and Artist
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- Shares nobles commitments to goodness
- Inwardness creates intelligence and warfare against artist
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Resentment of Priests
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- Transitioning from old-new testament
-Jew to Christ birhted slave morality
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Slave and Prior Power
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- Mobilized by reactions to conditions
- Enemy is evil
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Slave Morality Essay #2
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- Rejects world by master, new radical dynamic created
- Don’t return to prior era, free from prison of pathology
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Promises
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- See selves as act of will
- Capacity to promise is a product of conscience
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Consciousnesses and Pain
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- Cultivated through history
- Remebering and future commitment through suffering
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Bad Consciousness
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- Form of debt, punshiment traced to creditor and debtor
- Punish originally pleasure that creditor issued
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Debtor and Life
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- Pledges it to the creditor
- Creditor receives pleasure through punishment
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Punishment Pleasure Now
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- Was once common, slave morality and pity took over
- Derive pleasure in pain on selves
