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This ressentiment Nietzsche calls "priestly vindictiveness", [10] based on the jealous weak seeking to enslave the strong and thus erode the basis for power by pulling the powerful down. Such movements were, according to Nietzsche, inspired by "the most intelligent revenge" of the weak. [11]
Nietzsche's chief development of ressentiment came in his book On the Genealogy of Morals; see esp §§ 10–11). [3] [4] Earlier it had been used by Søren Kierkegaard. [5] [6] [7] notably in his Two Ages: A Literary Review. [8] The term was also studied by Max Scheler in a monograph published in 1912 and reworked a few years later. [9]
To slave morality, justice is a deferred event, ultimately taking the form of an imagined revenge that will result in everlasting life for the weak and punishment for the strong. Slave morality grows out of impotence, world-weariness, indignation and envy; it purports to speak for the oppressed masses who have been wronged, deprived of the ...
Nietzsche asserts that the psychological reality of redemption was a "new way of life, not a new faith". [19] It is "[t]he deep instinct which prompts the Christian how to live so that he will feel that he is 'in heaven'". [19] The Christian is known by his acts. He offers no resistance to evil, He has no anger and wants no revenge.
Raymond Geuss has compared Nietzsche's view of language, as expressed in this essay, to be similar to that of the later Wittgenstein's, in its de-emphasis of "the distinction between literal and metaphorical usage." [7] A few decades prior Erich Heller had similarly noted a comparison between Nietzsche's thoughts on language and Wittgenstein. [8]
Friedrich Nietzsche, in circa 1875. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) developed his philosophy during the late 19th century. He owed the awakening of his philosophical interest to reading Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The World as Will and Representation, 1819, revised 1844) and said that Schopenhauer was one of the few thinkers that he respected, dedicating to him ...
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (German: Menschliches, Allzumenschliches: Ein Buch für freie Geister) is a book by 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1878.
In his book on Nietzsche, Mencken portrayed the philosopher as a proponent of anti-egalitarian aristocratic revolution, a depiction in sharp contrast with left-wing interpretations of Nietzsche. Nietzsche was declared an honorary anarchist by Emma Goldman, and he influenced other anarchists such as Guy Aldred, Rudolf Rocker, Max Cafard and John ...