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Nietzsche's 'On The Genealogy Of Morals'

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In Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals, he criticizes how Christianity is not a positive thing but instead a negative religion. In his second essay, Nietzsche talks about pain in the form of a beating. He says, “That which can in general be attained through punishment, in men and in animals, is an increase of fear, a heightening of prudence, mastery of the desires: thus, punishment tames men, but it does not make them ‘better’-one might with more justice assert the opposite” (GM II. 15). In this passage Nietzsche talks about how the idea of pain and punishment does not actually work. He comments how if a person experiences a certain punishment that it may not cause them to feel a change but instead increase their negative behavior. Nietzsche claims that …show more content…

Also, this has to do with Nietzsche argument on morals as he does not believe the Christian religion follows these when they force people to follow their ideals. Even though Nietzsche is often criticized for having very emotionally connected ideals, I tend to agree with this passage. I believe that if you punish someone for too long or do something that does nothing but cause pain it will end up back firing and cause the person who is experiencing the punishment to not want to listen to the person who is administering it. We often see this in new parents and young children relationships. Often, young parents struggle with the idea of how to discipline their children after showing negative behavior. In society, the first thought that comes to people’s minds is the idea of physical punishment of some sort, but it often does nothing but cause anger as the child begins to become angry at the parent administering the punishment and therefore will not listen to them for however long the feud last

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