Nietzsche Flashcards
What do psychologists lack?
A historical spirit
What do psychologists incorrectly suggest the original judgement of good were?
-good acts were acts that were praised as egoistic by the people they were useful to, but eventually everyone forgot the origin of praise and experienced these acts as habitually good all round
Where does good and bad actually come from? and where does the idea of unegoistic actions come from?
- the ‘good’ themselves, nobles, the mighty, the high placed, judged themselves as good
- thus bad presented itself as those who were below the good
- The word good is not necessarily attached to unegoistic actions, it’s only since the decline of aristocratic values that egoistic and unegoistic entered consciousness
What effect did the decline of nobility have on morality?
- The aristocracy called themselves the truthful
- thus when the aristocracy declined the word good was associated with spiritual nobility, or being noble like
What eventually happens to good and bad?
they develop in a way that does not relate to social standing.
When does a change in language occur?
-When the priestly caste take power, ‘pure’ and ‘impure’ become opposites associated with ‘good’ and ‘bad’
What do priests cause to happen to the human soul?
-It gains those attributes that set it apart from animals, depth and evil
Why do priests and warriors confront each other?
-they have different conceptions of what is pure
What impact did jews have on morality?
- Jews started saying that those who suffer, the poor, are good, whilst the nobility are wicked
- this showed them as hateful people as they made themselves good
What is master morality, and how does it make men perceive the poor?
- Master morality is the morality of the masters, nobles, the warriors, who see themselves and their actions as good.
- The masters perceive a pathos of distance between them and those who are poor, unhealthy, weak or impotent. These are all undesirable qualities and are thus bad.
What is slave morality and what impact did it have on how men perceive the nobles?
-Slave morality, exists most with the priest caste but also plebs and slaves. These are poor and weak people who learn to hate and resent the power and health of the masters. They dub their masters ‘evil’ and themselves ‘good’
How does slave morality react to things outside self? and what does Master morality do?
- Slave morality says no
- Master morality seeks out its opposite so it can say ‘yes’ to itself even more, there is little concern for the low
How do the two types of people interact with happiness?
- Noble man views himself as happy and doesn’t need to construct this by looking at enemies or lying to self
- Happiness is a kind of rest or peace for the powerless
In which order does the noble create good and bad?
-Noble creates good in himself, then creates concept of bad
Why does Nietzsche suggest good and bad not that different?
- All subjective
- In slave morality, nobles bad, but in master morality, the weak are bad
