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Essay Three - Coggle Diagram

- - - - what is meant by morality?
        
        the conventional values according to which people see themselves as moral p7
        
        unegoistic values of self denial, self sacrifice, and altruism
      - N is concerned that these values may harbor a poison of sorts, stifling humanity such that the present is lived at the expense of the future p8
      - Instead, N argues our values ought to affirm a beings will to power, or the extent to which that being embodies power, vitality, and a life-affirming essence. Thus, N worries that the disease of modern morality in raising up unegoistic values of compassion, self denial, altruism, these values suppress the will to power
    - - that is, some higher form of human being may be created from the deepening of the human spirit. Modernity thus might be a necessary development of a life affirming, yes-saying future human being who can escape the internalization of cruelty p62/L23
      - Our self-flagellation, self-torturing, constantly guilty minded ways is who we’ve become. That’s what modern morality has produced in us. N still holds out a bit of optimism that the deepening of the spirit brought upon by christianity might have prepared the human soul for an overcoming of this ‘no saying’
  - - - Modernity and consumerism produces an ethically debased and spiritually enervated human: summed up by G as irreligion
    - - 'new spirit born within us' p196
        
        Seems to mean that the encounter w/ modern ideas of equality, forming the basis for Rs objection, have become one of the paths to truth that Indians can now embrace. They prove the untruth of cruel religious customs.
        
        G is not simply a traditionalist, modern ideas of equality are also part of his multi-perspectival view of moral truth
- - - - This man of the future is the true sovereign individual whose way has been prepared by the deepening of the pisir achieved through the internalization of cruelty but who has emerged on the other side, liberated from the need to inflict cruelty on themselves
        
        They would be an antichrist for sure, not sacrificing themselves for the sake of humanity. But N can’t tell us much more. Just as Mx doesn’t usurp the role of the revolutionary class by presuming to say what a full communist society would like. It belongs to someone after N to show what this new human will look like
        
        The ideal of the sovereign individual could be joined again to the idea of a good conscience, someone who affirms their values and creates new values and does not worry any longer about inflicting cruelty on themselves
  - - - the realization of each individual's capacity for freedom
      - swaraj is learning to rule ourselves
        
        G embraces the ascetic ideal as a technique for refining the human spirit. But in contrast to N, he radicalizes and democratizes this ideal by insisting that its realization is available to humans as such
        
        Agrees with N that modernity has brought about a weakness in humanity, but G believes its possible to overcome this weakness by orienting individuals away from material pursuits and towards