Nietzsche's Genealogy Of Morality And Ethical Frameworks

Ethics and morality for most of us come from God, when we think of God we associate all of that which is good with him and dispose of anything bad, thus god is morality. The irrational thing about this is that, going by that logic we should all have the same view and opinion on ethics and morality since in all of our religions god is good, however this is not the case. Radical organizations such as ISIS use god as a means of justifying the pain they inflict on others, they have opposing views regarding morality and ethics, and even though god is good their moral values conflict our own, Nietzsche suggests we have killed god. If god were dead, then morality is also dead, we have created our own versions of morality to comfort ourselves, our

His essay starts of with examining the two competing moral frameworks which at the time were the “noble” and “slave” frameworks, during that time each of these frameworks had their own definition of good and bad. The slave frame work found in Judeo-Christian ethics was a result of the slaves and priests using their repressed anger to overthrow the nobles, Nietzsche described it as a “perversion of a pre-existing and superior moral framework”. The definition of good for priests and slaves using the slave framework was being religious, compassionate and giving charity and they defined bad as encircling power, strength and arrogant honour, however people using the noble framework saw good as being just that, power, strength and honour. Masters who were raised in the footsteps of the nobles saw bad as being weak, living in poverty, they described it as something that was beneath them. This is

For Nietzsche there are no moral facts nothing is good nor bad, there is nothing in nature that holds moral worth in itself, more precisely to speak of good or bad is to speak of human lies, of which we find it necessary to live. We are compelled by our biological nature to view the world through lenses of which are good and bad yet the world is neither within itself. Nietzsche is an existentialist much like Albert Camus he encouraged living authentically which he called an affirming life, he opposed concepts such as religion and ethics as they comforted us and crippled our view on life. Nietzsche repelled these ideas claiming that god is dead, “Where has God gone? I shall tell you. We have killed him – you and I! We are his murderers. But how have we done this? How were we able to drink up the sea?…God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, the murderers of murderers, console ourselves?” To Nietzsche religion and ethics cripple people because it gives them an easy way out of life, people do not have to take responsibility for their actions further more its not an affirming life. For example people in Paris live life in fear of terrorism due to recent terrorist activity, and so their houses and basements comfort them much like religion and ethics comfort us, living inside trapped and afraid is doing exactly what the terrorists want, which is to evoke