Nietzsche's 'On The Genealogy Of Morality'

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Furthermore, the detrimental side of morality has placed itself within us in the means of understanding ourselves, making it difficult to picture our lives functioning in a way other than how it is right now. Thus, it is argued that we face a problematic restoration project that must be deconstructed, studied, and reconstructed in a healthier form. The development of this is seen in the work On the Genealogy of Morality which includes the First Treatise striking on the conception of what morality is as a historical innovation, the Second Treatise touches on guilt and bad conscience which pertains to the danger moralized guilt poses on psychological health; the Third Treatise explores idealization of asceticism as means of intensifying self-punishment. It is emphasized how purified guilt is naturally conscripted …show more content…

He takes lead to a different approach connecting individuality and the freedom of the spirit. The final value included here is Pluralism. For Nietzsche, the ability to respond to the number of values or perspectives is a positive good in and of itself. He reinstates that in order for one to value multiple perspectives, one must have the ability to differentiate between all values to properly interpret and utilize your knowledge effectively. There is only a perspectival seeing, only a perspectival “knowing”; and the more affects we allow to speak about a matter, the more eyes, different eyes, we know how to bring to bear on one and the same matter, that much more complete will our “concept” of this matter, our “objectivity”, be. (Genealogy of Morality III, 12) The movie Failsafe is about the military command of America trying to stop an inevitable attack, the President of the United States throughout the movie tries to gain the trust of the Soviet chairman while the bomber crews are convinced that war has