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Comparing Nietzsche And Slave Morality

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One of Nietzsche's most famous, and infamous, beliefs was the death of God. With the decline of religion, especially Christianity, Nietzsche noticed a prominent change that led him to view the world and humankind as no longer innocent. Nietzsche was unable to see humankind as noble beings, but instead “one species among millions struggling to survive, descendants of some primordial zone” Ressentiment is the “dominant emotion of the herd” and is “a deep form of physically polluting resentment that generates slave morality”(Soccio, 2016, pg.464). Nietzsche claimed that even though most people claimed that they still believed in God, “our true faith is in scientific and technological progress” (Soccio, 2016, pg.463). With modern technology …show more content…

There are two fundamentally different types of morality, since there are two fundamentally different types of people. Both types of people have the will to power, but their approach to power is significantly different. “For the overman, the will to power is expressed openly, honestly, and nobly through exuberant, life-affirming self-creation and self-imposition” (Soccio, 2016, pg.469). Based on the differing expression of power, the overman has the opposite set of values to live by compared to the herd members. The overman does not resort or appeal to a higher figure, resulting in higher levels of courage and nobility. In master morality, there “is an aesthetic-heroic code of honor” (Soccio, 2016, pg.469). The overman only looks to themselves for value, which is “defined in aesthetic terms: noble-ignoble (shameful), glorious-degrading, honorable-dishonorable, and refined-vulgar” (Soccio, 2016, pg.469). The overman’s morality “begins with his affirmation of his own beloved self, herd morality begins with the invention of the “evil other” the evil one” (Soccio, 2016, pg.470). The afterimage is bad for the overman, but good for the herdman. The positive in master morality is orientation, while it is negative for slave morality. The main focus of the overman is to “overcome merely human resentment and self-loathing, the overman looks forward to being precisely what and who he is” (Soccio, 2016, …show more content…

Through amor fati, which is “expressed as joyous affirmation and delight that everything is exactly as and what it is” can also explain how the overman can exist beyond good and evil (Soccio, 2016, pg.470). “Amor fati overcomes the corruption imposed by modernity and slave morality; it restores us to innocence by redeeming us from the ancient concepts of sin and guilty before the braying herd and before God” (Soccio, 2016, pg.471). By eliminating the concepts of sin and guilt, the concept of good and evil is also diminished. The overman does not have to abide to the laws set forth by God, since God is

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