Beyond Good And Evil Nietzsche

Socrates makes the claim that “no harm can befall a good person in this life or the next” (Socrates). When he makes this claim he further explains that bad things cannot happen to good people. If he is a good person in life, then he will go to Heaven and will be at a certain gain in the afterlife. If he has faith in the gods, then no harm will come to him. The readings, “Beyond Good and Evil” and “The Birth of Tragedy” are written by Friedrich Nietzsche, and have diverse way of speaking of God then Blaise Pascal does in his works of Pensees. When comparing Nietzsche to Pascal, they have two very different perspectives. Nietzsche discusses the good life by being a person of a higher nature.

The readings, “Beyond Good and Evil” and “The Birth

In Nietzsche's philosophy of “Beyond Good and Evil” he discusses being a good person and how we can live a good life with this personality. The meaning of the good life can be referred to the sacrifice of humans, the sacrifice of human nature, and the hope we have in God. The sacrifice of humans refers to our morals. He uses selections to break down the rules of God in a simpler way. Passage 55 states, “There is a great ladder of religious cruelty with many rungs; but three of them are the most important. At one time one sacrificed human beings to one's god, perhaps precisely those human beings, one loved best….” (Nietzsche 55). When this statement is made, he is explaining that the ladder of God is questioned of which direction it is going in. When we look at faith all together we recognize the ladder is going down, which represents all the differences in religion. This relates to the good life and because if we act upon God and show that we believe in Him we will be granted eternal happiness. Along with human sacrifice comes sacrifice of human nature as well as the hope in God, which relates to be a good person. Selection 56 says, “the ideal of the most high-spirited vital, world affirming individual, who has learned not just to accept and go along with what was and what is, but who wants it again just as it was and is through all eternity” (Nietzsche 56). Believers put in everything

Both philosophers have a similar way of thinking in which they believe in God and use intellectual ways of explaining it. They both use perspectives that say it is the only way that will lead to happiness in life. They use similar evidence that deal with choosing sides in relation to God. In Nietzsche’s reading he states, “there are absolutely no moral phenomenon, only a moral interpretation of phenomena” (Nietzsche 108). The ladder of religious cruelty, the ladder goes up as we become closer to God as we have hopes and desires in his existence. We climb that ladder because it's our only way of happiness. This can be explained as a gain or loss situation because if we go up the ladder, we are closer to God and are happier people, rather than if we went down which is away from God, and want to believe in him. This relates to Pascals reading which states, “Let us weigh the gain and the loss in calling heads that God exists. Let us assess the two cases. If you win, you win- everything: if you loss, you lose nothing” (Pascal 213). Choosing heads is better, because it means we want to believe that God’s existence is real, which puts us at a gain in life. Whereas choosing trials, means we don’t believe and rather risk the chance of being wrong. The philosophers have a similar way of thinking as they both use their own examples of discussing gaining and losing. Nietzsche and