Nietzsche On Master Slave Morality

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Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who was born Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. He was born October 1844 and dies august 25 1900. Not only was Nietzsche a German philosopher, he also was a culture critic who began his initially as a classical philologist. At the age of 24, Nietzsche became the youngest ever to hold a chair of classical philology at one of the universities he attended, university of Basel. 10 years later, Nietzsche resigned due to health problems, a nervous disorder, that would continue throughout his life. Nietzsche is considered one of the most influential people of all time. Nietzsche is widely respected and known for his writings on good and evil. He is also known for his writings on religion in modern society. …show more content…

Nietzsche argues that there are two ultimate types of morality. That's is ‘Master Morality' and ‘Slave morality'. He argues that Master morality weigh actions based on a scale of good or bad consequences, whereas ‘Slave Morality' weighs more on good and evil intentions. He is basically stating that slave morality values kindness, sympathy and humility and master morality values pride. Nietzsche believes that master morality is that of the strong-willed and criticizes the views the good is everything that is helpful and bad is everything harmful. He agrees that we the people are basing everything on the acceptance of …show more content…

He believes that our world was achieved by the direct results of violence or mistrust. He believes that ascetic ideals are not the denial of existence, but instead, the affirmation of existence. Nietzsche believes that philosophers are writing about asceticism from an unbiased standpoint but thinking of what is valued within themselves and how to be able to benefit from it. Ubermensch (German for overman or superhuman) is, in Nietzsche's views, in contrast, the way he understands the worldliness of Christianity. In his 1883 book "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" he has a character (Zarathustra) who positions the Ubermensch as the goal for humanity set for itself. He wants to express that humans are not motivated simply just to have the desire to experience pleasure or dies but to satisfy themselves by asserting their will to power. On the other hand, Ubermensch is harnessing the will to power just to achieve great

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