Nietzsches The Genealogy Of Morals

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Introduction

Nietzsche’s “The Genealogy of Morals” critiques the values our morals judgment. This

he says is based on the various genealogical methods. He examines the origin, as well as the

different means of these concept of morals. The examination which he conducts in the first essay

looks into the “Good and the bad.” The Contrast that he terms as the “master morality” and the

“slave morality” contradicts Kant’s view of the diabolical evil. According to Nietzsche, his view

of evil and ourselves is based on any possible sense of moral transgression (Nietzsche,1989).

Nietzsche, unlike Kant, identifies bad conscious as our tendency to see ourselves as sinners and

locate its origin in the needs that came with the development of society, to inhibit the animal

instinct in us for aggression, and the cruelty for self-identification. Overly, his view of evil is

different from that stated by Kant in various aspects. First, it begins with a greater understanding

of ourselves (Arendt, 1973).

Kant's diabolical evil is based on our self-understanding but not self-knowledge.

Knowing who we are and finding ourselves. The end of The genealogy of morals does not fit the

preface. The end of the genealogy, however, responds to the preface by Nietzsche. However, it

does not fit the actual suggestion that he holds on morals. By contrast, Nietzsche looking whole

different aspects of who were are. According to him, and unlike Kant, we are yet to find

ourselves. From the Preface, “we are unknown to ourselves, we mean of knowledge – and with

good reason." This makes unknown of ourselves. The examination of the Morals ensures our

well-being for good judgment ability according to Nietzsche. He reveals that we are not aware of

who we are because our self-search is not appropriate. Nietzsche’s thought concerning the issue

genealogy of our moral prejudice consist of the will for nothingness. The end of the genealogy

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suggests that man would rather will for nothingness than not to will at all. In his examination of

whether we know who we are, he traces the origins of concepts of guilt and punishment. Guilt in

this aspect is simply a debt that was owed, and punishment a form of security form of repayment

(Arendt, 1973). The role of ressentiment is that it gives one the power for further self-searching

order to determine who we are, this a result of this feeling of dissatisfaction that comes with it.

Kant's distinction between the radical evil, and diabolical evil that is disintegrated, lack

and any self-oriented, continents motivation which presents itself as a Lucania style. Nietzsche's

preface has a specific limitation to the self-knowledge that we are supposed to have. Diabolical

evils according to Kant becomes scanty once the subject loses its recourse to the dimension of

final judgment, and this is quite different from what Nietzsche suggests in the preface. According

to the aspect of evil as indicated in the Genealogy of morals, Nietzsche poses the question,

"under what conditions did man invent himself that judgment of the values, Good and Evil, and

what intrinsic value do they possess in themselves"? (Hollingdale, 1989). All these questions

remain pending at the end of the Genealogy which does not relate to the Preface, which offers an

understanding of who we are. The value of “good and evil” according to Nietzsche has moral

significance. However, according to preface, the “values of these values” were initially taken for

granted. According to it, Good and evils’ higher values which is a good value is critical for the

human progress., utility and the prosperity, not forgetting the future (Nietzsche,1989).

In the last essay of the Preface, Nietzsche tries to reply to the question of “What is the

meaning of the ascetic deals”? He confronts asceticism as the powerful and the paradoxical force

that works to dominate contemporary life (Nietzsche,1881). He also sees it as the expression of

the weak, sick will. With the inability to cope with a greater struggle against itself, the sick will

normally see its animal instinct from this instinct. It has a greater attempt of subduing and taming

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itself as much as he can. He concludes that “man would rather will nothingness than not will."

This depicts the willingness by human to understanding ourselves one thing which is not

achieved at the end of the Genealogy by Nietzsche as he examines the self-search that we do

have as human (Arendt, 1973).

Conclusion

Nietzsche’s “The genealogy of morals”, the preface is not a restatement of the Kant’s

diabolical evil in any way. This is from the fact it states differently the role that the good and the

evil plays. The “values of these values” as he states is very crucial in the societal co-existence, an

aspect which is no expressed by Kant. Kant believes that evil has no value in human life and he

reveals the resistance that he thinks should be placed on the same. His general analysis of our

moral judgment based on the genealogy acknowledges the importance of the “Good and Evil”

values but failed to reveal yourself knowledge. Whether we know who we are, the various

origins and means of the moral concept, therefore, vary from those by Kant.

References

Nietzsche, F. W (1989). On the genealogy of morals. Vintage.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52319/52319-h/52319-h.htm

Arendt, H. (1973). The origins of totalitarianism (Vol. 244). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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