The Reactive Nietzsche: Contradictions in the Genealogy of Morals
Title: The Reactive Nietzsche: Contradictions in the Genealogy of Morals
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 1813 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Reactive Nietzsche: Contradictions in the Genealogy of Morals
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 1813 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
In his Genealogy of Morals Nietzsche censures the members of the Judeo-Christian tradition for their "impotence." As a result of their impotence the descendents of this tradition (slaves, as I will call them to maintain some modicum of political correctness), have developed a hatred "to monstrous and uncanny proportions" (33). This hatred has had the end result of squelching the happiness and will to power<two truly laudable elements of humanity<that
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will never be any totally joyful übermensch. As a result, he does not consider that his own universal discontent, rather than some masochistic desire to see others suffer, might be the true reason behind Christianity's unwillingness to ignore suffering as he would wish. His own work, and the pessimistic suffering apparent there, lends credence to the very opposite of his argument: that suffering is universal rather than a calculation of the meek.