Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morals
polemic
genealogy
aphorism
pathology
values
noble morality
blond beast
slave morality
evil (vs. bad)
ressentiment
promising
guilt (schuld)
morality of mores
critique
progress
total critique
leveling
the last man
will of power
any official agreement (ex: law is a promise to obey)
promises need to be remembered People are taught to remember things through torture and discipline
critiquing Christianity for making people small, cowardly creatures
The levelling of the European man is the great process which cannot be obstructed; it should even be accelerated
little ethical rules about how we ought to act
drills rationality and calculability into us
make us rule-followers, subject easily to forms of power
refers to the push for socioeconomic equality (Nietzsche feared we would lose the capacity for greatness, pushing us into conformity and the social straitjacket
the end station of bourgeois morality, the perfectly calculable and civilized man
power for its own sake dangerous
methodology tool #1: it is a philosophical analysis examining the historical and linguistic origins of ideas
refers to lions not Aryans
a written attack
a pithy, poetic statement of an idea
methodology tool #2
exaggeration
methodology tool #3: in order to take Nietzsche seriously, you cannot take hi too seriously
Morals; ideals / valuations of positive or negative connotations
the morality of masters, how all morality was in the beginning// self-regarding because it is self-issuing; not in reaction to anything else
refer to warlike passage
anyone who was not the nobles
Nietzsche argues that at some poin, a slave revolt overturned noble morality (led by a priest figure, which Niezsche frames as Jews
masters and their domination (from slave morality)
the essence of slavey morality is ressentiment: captures the idea that actions / politics are done out of revenge
critique morality and christanity as neither secular nor religious interpretations of Niezsche's critique of morlaity do it justice
he critique of morality by claiming that the world in itself has no values implies that Niezsche rejects moral realism
the development is one that moves forward. The most level-headed are led astray by this illusion
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dangerous, by completely rejecting and deflating conceptions of progress, Nietzsche is left without tools to craft an emancipatory declaration of politcs
feared we would lose the capacity for greatness, pushing us into conformity and the social straitjackt
refers to the push for socioeconomic equality