Nietzsche: The Struggle Between Good And Evil

According to Nietzsche, good/bad and good/evil arose from the history of morality. When looking back to where good was first found, the high and mighty saw themselves as good since they were powerful and wealthy. This concept of goodness was self-evident, you would see yourself as good if you saw yourself as powerful. As a result, the poor were considered bad. Since they didn’t have the things they wanted and their life lacked value, they life was bad. However, this was an afterthought of feeling bad and seeing yourself as good. The masters felt a distance between themselves, who were good, and those who were not, which must have meant they were bad. “The pathos of nobility and distance, as I said, the continuing and predominant feeling of

The priestly class was part of the masters because although they were not strong, they were purer than anyone else. However, the priestly began separating itself, which resulted in a priestly mode and aristocratic mode for master morality. It was believed that humans had a deeper soul, a more interesting soul, and one that could be evil. Nietzsche stated that “man first became an interesting animal on the foundation of this essentially dangerous form of human existence, the priest, and that the human soul became deep in the higher sense and turned evil for the first time” (Nietzsche, 2007, p.16). This is because, unlike animals, humans have the ability to think and reflect. Priestly morality poisoned humanity to make us sick and unhealthy, but it also made us interesting. From priestly morality spawns slave morality. The values that were good in master morality become bad in slave morality, they take pleasure in the simple things. The aristocratic equation of good equaling noble, powerful, beautiful, happy, blessed is rejected by Christians, who Nietzsche was actually referring to when he said Jews. “It was the Jews who, rejecting the aristocratic value equation ventured, with awe-inspiring consistency, to bring about a reversal and held it in the teeth of the most unfathomable hatred (the hatred of the powerless” (Nietzsche, 2007, p.17). Slave morality takes what Romans viewed as good in