Focus for Final Paper:
Slave- Revolt in Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche's
Moral Valuation & The Problem with Ressentiment
- New idea and method of morality - ressentiment as creative drive
- Nietzsche's views as seen through the light of artistry and prose, rather than just nihilism.
Nietzschean Timeline of Morality
'Good' and 'Bad'
Societal Approval
Habit
Errors of Morality
- morality = customary
- Good in itself?
- Nietzsche believes this causes pride
- leaves little room for question in the social sense.
- lead to the creation of value-judgements
- useful-practical: good
- harmful-impractical: bad
- concept created by those in power: origin of 'good'
- concept of bad, tied to common man; historically, 'good' was not shown to them