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Need help interpreting chapter 9 from the first essay of the Genealogy of Morals
In this chapter Nietzsche says:
It is the church that repulses us, not its poison - apart from the Church we like the poison.
I am under the impression that "us" refers to the freethinker. ...
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What was Neitzche calling "old frigid and tedious frogs"?
After the first paragraph of the first essay of On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche discusses how English psychologists may be motivated to study the darker side of "our inner world". Then ...
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What are some of the problems involved in privileging efficiency and objectivity as values, over and against moral virtues? [closed]
I am wondering, for example, why do we think that maximum efficiency is a
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Intellectual History of Idea in A Geneaology of Morals Essay One
In Nietzsche's first essay in A Geneaology of Morals, he suggests that use of language in which subjects and verbs are distinguished may influence or at least correspond to conceptual distinctions in ...
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Nietzsche on Goethe: Not an ascetic priest, "He knows more."
Nietzsche constantly praised Goethe as being a truly remarkable human. But one passage from Genealogy of Morals does raise a question for me, after he spends much time setting up and criticizing the ...
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Why Nietzsche believes that victims barter the damage they receive with a violent feast to see their tormentor suffer in a feast?
In the second essay of On the Genealogy of Morality: Guilt, bad conscience and the like, 6, Nietzsche seems to defend the thesis that victims barter the damage they received with a violent feast to ...
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Reversal of moral orientation?
Morality gives a certain structure to society. It puts everyone, or at least the majority of people, on the same page concerning how to treat others. Those that do not fit within this code of how to ...
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What is the relation between slave morality and free spirit in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality?
Considering the discussion on free-spirit by creating its own value system, how Nietzsche relate "free-spirit" and "slave morality"(its depth and its evilness)?
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Nietzsche challenging traditional morality
What exactly are the challenges to morality Nietzsche presents in the Genealogy of Morality? Is there a specific philosopher Nietzsche is responding to (like Kant, Aristotle, Plato, or Hobbes)? And is ...
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What are Nietzsche's basic views on morality?
Can someone give me a cue for Nietzsche's views on morality? I'm sorry, I haven't read any of his works completely yet, but 'Beyond Good and Evil', and his Darwinian context make me curious.
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Critique of Nietzsche's 'Ressentiment'?
I know roughly what Nietzsche conceives 'ressentiment' to be, basically the inability to react to (and hence festering of) the feeling of being oppressed and powerless over a long time.
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Is plastic surgery cheating evolution or genetics? [closed]
In the West and modern society, is plastic surgery objectively cheating genetic destiny?
Say a man is not too attractive -- average looking -- and does not manage many sexual partners, if any at all. ...
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Historical Accuracy of Foucalt's works [duplicate]
I am beginning the "History of Sexuality" and wanted to ask to what degree should I take what Foucalt states about historical events in any of his works as accurate? From my understanding from looking ...
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Friedrich Nietzsche - On the Genealogy of Morals - Slave Morality Imposition
Nietzsche says there is no being behind the doing and I agree with this idea. He also says the weak separated the doing from the being in order to condemn the strong for using theirs strength.
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Does it matter if people are "good" or "bad" overall?
Common Western-social systems have upheld the notion of "goodness" as a trait that defines the nature and impression of a human being. Even today you will find that virtually all cultures and ...
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Nietzsche on the idea of Alienation
Nietzsche believes that modern human beings were alienated from themselves. what was the nature of this alienation? how did we come to be alienated? what exactly are we alienated from?
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Is there such thing as a fully secular writing?
This started as what was thought to be a simple English usage question to help me with a presentation. I wanted an umbrella term for writing that has no intrinsic or explicit connection to religion ...
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Why does Nietzsche blame all sufferers themselves for their suffering?
A novice, I do not feel prepared yet to read Nietzsche; but please tell me if his primary sources answer my question.
Source: p 98, Philosophy ; A Very Short Introduction (2002) by Edward Craig.
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Is Nietzsche saying here that agnostics admire the unintelligible?
I need help understanding the last two paragraphs of the 25th section, third essay, which is provided below from the free link: http://home.sandiego.edu/~janderso/360/genealogy3.htm
Similarly who ...
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Geneaology of Morals Essay 2 Section 21
I am having difficulty understanding this section. Does he mean that he doesn't bother moralizing the concepts of guilt and duty because he sees no point to moralize something that is disappearing(...
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How valid is this subjective moralty statement?
I have been trying to find any argument against this statement:
As good and bad can't be objectively defined because everyone has a different vision about what's good and what's bad, it becomes ...
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Can any consensual activity be wrong?
What are the philosophical arguments / frameworks that view at least seemingly consensual activities (e.g incest, killing (assisted suicide or dueling), mutilation, gay sex ) involving one or more ...
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Thoughts on modern promises
For a coming essay (university) I would like to analyze the modern concept of promises. However, I am having a fairly hard time finding sources that have previously discussed the topic.
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Strong man of "ressentiment" and the ambiguity of Strength
I am new to the field of philosophy and am trying presently to read and understand Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals. In the first essay, he talks about the popular morality and ressentiment;
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Does the “Lord's Prayer” increase corruption?
Consider this part of the Lord's Prayer:
"and forgive (1) us our offenses, as we also have forgiven (2) our offenders"
"perdoai (1) as nossas ofensas assim como nós perdoamos (2) a ...
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Can I assume that "Normative Ethics (Moral theory)" all about "Justice"?
It seems that absolute goodness is impossible to convince or to prove logically other than within religious communities.
Q1) Am I thinking right here?
If there is no absolute goodness except from ...
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What did Nietzsche mean by accusing Christianity of slave-morality?
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But I've come to believe that there's also something deeper at work: that most of the world's people live with the legacy of slavery. Even in a nominal ...
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What is the modern view of the validity of Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals?
I have been rereading Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals. The prose is moving, inasmuch as one is moved by prose (I am but very little), but the content seems to my eye poorly reasoned (relying ...
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For what does Nietzsche admire the "priestly" Jewish race?
Throughout his works, Nietzsche conveys great praise for the Jewish people. However, he obviously does not admire the consequences of their accomplishments. In the first essay of On the Genealogy of ...
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Is Nietzsche suggesting that the "free spirit" is a democrat in On the Genealogy of Morals?
It is no secret that Nietzsche had contempt for democracy. In Beyond Good and Evil, he compared democrats, those people of democracy who think that humans are all equal and free, to a herd of farm ...
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