Hegel And Nietzsche Similarities

Hegel and Nietzsche have some similarities and some differences in their work, both being historical writers providing us with the evolution of the slave morality. In disparity, Nietzsche considers the slave to resent the master, yet Hegel says that the slave gains self-consciousness and a mind of his own through the work that he does for the greater morality. Nietzsche dislikes “The man of ressentiment” (a title that he gave to the slave) because the resentment takes away people’s drive and motivation to improve. In Hegel, the slave becomes confident when he realises his own creativity through the products that he created with his own hands. A similarity that these philosophers have in in common is the concept of independence. To

According to Nietzsche, slave morality sees anything that is not itself as bad or evil, the slave has the need to feel superior morally, therefore they conceive the wealthy as evil. Nietzsche argues that once the slaves became aware of this concept of “evil”, they had to become what was the opposite and that is why they consider themselves as the “good”. In Nietzsche’s arguments, the slave needs something else to make it come to life, it needs something that it can judge, something that it can feel superior to. The one with power will always be seen as “evil” and the underdog, the one that is poor, the one that is working hard to survive, that is the one that will always be seen as the good. “The good man is the one who refrains from violation , who harms no one , who attacks no one , who fails to retaliate , who leaves revenge to God , who lives as we do in seclusion , who avoids all evil and above all asks little of life , as we do , the patient , the humble , the just”(F.N.p30). The slave never looks for revenge, but leaves it up to God, a slave does not act or retaliate but instead would guilt you to death and a slave praises those who do not cause any harm mainly because they are too weak to

Nietzsche criticises slave morality because of what it stands for, slave morality according to Nietzsche is simply based on denial, hatred and resentment of the greater morality. The slave tends to despise and hate the master so much that he forgets all about the present time , he becomes obsessed with the idea of an afterlife , thinking that in an afterlife he would not be forced to live in a world based on someone else’s beliefs. “The ressentiment of creatures to whom the real reaction, that of the deed, is denied and who find compensation in an imaginary revenge”(F.N.p22). Nietzsche hates slave morality for the way that it disparages life, the slave loses focus on living, his thought process is mainly focused on hating the master while the master does not even give a little bit of thought towards the slave and through all that like mentioned before, the slave almost forgets about himself. Hegel’s thought about the negativity of the master slave relationship is that it is based on fear, without fear this relationship would not exist. In relation to that Hegel says “Without the discipline of service and obedience, fear remains at the formal stage, and does not extend to the known real world of existence”(H.p119). The