Nietzsche's Genealogy Of Morality

The ability to believe in God is dependent upon the availability of concrete evidence in our physical world and whether or not this evidence justifies a plausible God. There is also the ability to believe in a God but not actually have trust that this God is a just God so rejectance is in order. To Ivan, from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, there was evidence that there exists a God. He just did not believe that God was just so he did not accept him as his God stating, “It’s not that I don’t accept God, Alyosha; I’m just, with the utmost respect, handing Him back my ticket” (308); due to the fact that there is unjust in the world to those who have not sinned in the eyes of God. Then along came Friedrich Nietzsche to express his views of morality in his writing Genealogy of Morals, presenting two ways of moraly behaving;

That Nietzsche is merely making observations on the different types of moralities. However, Nietzsche is a noble moral himself and he can very well relate to the noble morals. He actually praises the noble morals by explaining how successful they are, or in in his own words he says, “The noble human being lives with himself in confidence and openness”(Nietzsche 20). He also associated the word “good” with the noble because they are “inward” in a sense that they react to their surroundings and adapt themselves and move forward instead of trying to change the way things are. On the other side, he attaches “evil” to the slave morals saying that all they do is bring negativity into the world and simple react to their surroundings in a negative way. That the slave morals look “outward” and judge the world and complain instead of trying to better themselves to get through. Nietzsche subtly reveals to us that he favors the noble over the slave but looking at his word choice we see that he does indeed favor the