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Contrary to Nietzsche's ultimate intent, much of his legacy ultimately led to an implosion of objectivity in which (i) truth became relative to individual perspective, (ii) "might ultimately made right" ("Social Darwinism"), and (iii) ethics would become subjective and solipsistic.
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 ...
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 ...
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [ii] (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. [14]
Nietzsche argues that there are two fundamental types of morality: "master morality" and "slave morality", which correspond, respectively, to the dichotomies of "good/bad" and "good/evil". In master morality, "good" is a self-designation of the aristocratic classes; it is synonymous with nobility and everything powerful and life-affirming.
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.