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Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morals - Coggle Diagram
Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morals
polemic
a written attack
genealogy
methodology tool #1: it is a philosophical analysis examining the historical and linguistic origins of ideas
aphorism
a pithy, poetic statement of an idea
methodology tool #2
pathology
values
Morals; ideals / valuations of positive or negative connotations
noble morality
the morality of masters, how all morality was in the beginning// self-regarding because it is self-issuing; not in reaction to anything else
blond beast
refers to lions not Aryans
refer to warlike passage
slave morality
critiquing Christianity for making people small, cowardly creatures
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
evil (vs. bad)
masters and their domination (from slave morality)
ressentiment
the essence of slavey morality is ressentiment: captures the idea that actions / politics are done out of
revenge
promising
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
guilt (schuld)
The levelling of the European man is the great process which cannot be obstructed; it should even be accelerated
morality of mores
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
critique
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
progress
the development is one that moves forward. The most level-headed are led astray by this illusion
total critique
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
leveling
refers to the push for socioeconomic equality (Nietzsche feared we would lose the capacity for greatness, pushing us into conformity and the social straitjacket
refers to the push for socioeconomic equality
the last man
the end station of bourgeois morality, the perfectly calculable and civilized man
will of power
power for its own sake dangerous
exaggeration
methodology tool #3: in order to take Nietzsche seriously, you cannot take hi too seriously