Nietzsche Freedom Is Not Free

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Nietzsche would be suspicious of more traditional conceptions of freedom because he would recognize that freedom can be defined by who is in power. He states that “It is much more the case that the "good people" themselves, that is, the noble, powerful, higher-ranking and higher-thinking people felt and set themselves and their actions up as good, that is to say, of the first rank, in contrast to everything low, low-minded, common, and vulgar” (3). If freedom is considered as being part of the “good,” then its definition can also change depending on the form of morality it is defined by. If a person following slave morality believes that freedom is found in God, Nietzsche would argue that they are not free. In fact, Nietzsche would argue that