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Aug 26, 2004 · 1. The Critique of Morality 1.1 Scope of the Critique: Morality in the Pejorative Sense. Nietzsche is not a critic of all “morality.” He explicitly embraces, for example, the idea of a “higher morality” which would inform the lives of “higher men” (Schacht 1983: 466–469), and, in so doing, he employs the same German word — Moral, sometimes Moralität — for both what he ...
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Jul 11, 2018 · To explain his ideas, Nietzsche gives us a story. He describes an ancient society with two classes, the Masters and the Slaves. The Masters are strong, creative, wealthy, and powerful. They can do ...
Nietzsche’s Ethics. The ethical thought of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) can be divided into two main components. The first is critical: Nietzsche offers a wide-ranging critique of morality as it currently exists. The second is Nietzsche’s positive ethical philosophy, which focuses primarily on what constitutes health ...
Here Nietzsche’s admonitions to “live dangerously” or to “multiply perspectives” seem adventitious. There is a tension in his work between his deconstruction of morality and his readiness to prescribe for us how we are to live. Nietzsche has a tendency to throw out themes and leave us the task of seeing how they cohere.
Slave-morality values sympathy, kindness, and humility and is regarded by Nietzsche as “herd-morality.” The history of society, Nietzsche believes, is the conflict between these two outlooks: the herd attempts to impose its values universally, but the noble master transcends their “mediocrity.”
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Jun 2, 2022 · What does Nietzsche mean by ‘morality’? In speaking of ‘morality’ 1 in the pejorative sense with which he often uses that word, Nietzsche has in mind a disparate collection of systems of ethical evaluation that are associated principally, though not exclusively, with Judaeo-Christian morality and its various secular embodiments (he regards Kantian ethics, Benthamite utilitarianism, and ...
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Sep 1, 2023 · The Crucifixion by Fra Angelico, 1423, via the Met Museum Nietzsche’s critique of morality is paired with his critical stance toward Christianity. At various points, it is difficult to pin down where Nietzsche’s criticisms constitute a criticism of morality in all of its possible forms, a more specific kind of morality of which Christian, religious moralism, or only the specific kind of ...
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