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Title: From the Genealogy, section 13


1
From the Genealogy, section 13
  • That lambs dislike great birds of prey does not
    seem strangeonly it gives no ground for
    reproaching those birds of prey for bearing off
    little lambs.

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From the Genealogy, section 13
  • And if the lambs say among themselves these
    birds of prey are evil and whoever is least like
    a bird of prey, but rather its opposite, a
    lambwould he not be good? there is no reason to
    find fault with this institution of an ideal

3
From the Genealogy, section 13
  • except perhaps that the birds of prey might view
    it a little ironically and say we dont
    dislike them at all, these good little lambs we
    even love them nothing is more tasty than a
    tender lamb.

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From the Genealogy, section 13
  • When the oppressed, downtrodden, outraged exhort
    one another with the vengeful cunning of
    impotence let us be different from the evil,
    namely good! And he is good who does not
    outrage, who harms nobody, who does not attack,
    who does not requite, who leaves revenge to God,
    who keeps himself hidden as we do, who avoids
    evil and desires little from life, like us, the
    patient, humble, and just

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From the Genealogy, section 13
  • this, listened to calmly and without previous
    bias, really amounts to no more than we weak
    ones are, after all, weak it would be good if we
    did nothing for which we are not strong enough
    but this dry matter of fact, this prudence of the
    lowest order which even insects possess (posing
    as dead, when in great danger, so as not to do
    too much), has, thanks to the counterfeit and
    self-deception of impotence, clad itself in the
    ostentatious garb

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From the Genealogy, section 13
  • of the virtue of quiet, calm resignation, just as
    if the weakness of the weakthat is to say, their
    essence, their effects, their sole ineluctable,
    irremovable realitywere a voluntary achievement,
    willed, chosen, a deed, a meritorious act.

7
From the Genealogy, section 14
  • Would anyone like to take a look into the secret
    of how ideals are made on earth?

8
From the Genealogy, section 14
  • Weakness is being lied into something
    meritorious, no doubt of it, and impotence which
    does not requite into goodness of heart
    anxious lowliness into humility subjection to
    those one hates into obedience.

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From the Genealogy, section 14
  • The inoffensiveness of the weak man, even the
    cowardice of which he has so much, his lingering
    at the door, his being ineluctably compelled to
    wait, here acquire flattering names, such as
    patience, and are even called virtue itself
    his inability for revenge is called unwillingness
    to revenge, perhaps even forgiveness. They also
    speak of loving ones enemiesand sweat as they
    do so.

10
From the Genealogy, section 14
  • But enough! Enough! I cant take any more. Bad
    air! This workshop were ideals are
    manufacturedit seems to me it stinks of so many
    lies.

11
From the Genealogy, section 10
  • The slave revolt in morality begins when
    ressentiment itself becomes creative and gives
    birth to values. While every noble morality
    develops from a triumphant affirmation fo itself,
    slave morality from the outset says No to what is
    outside, what is different, what is not
    itself and this No is its creative deed.

12
From Beyond Good and Evil 228
  • May I be forgiven the discovery that all moral
    philosophy so far has been boring and a soporific
    and that virtue has been impaired more for me by
    its boring advocates than by anything else.
    Consider, for example, the indefatigable,
    inevitable British utilitarians, how they walk
    clumsily and honorably in Benthams footsteps.

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From Beyond Good and Evil 228
  • Ultimately they all want English morality to be
    proved rightbecause this serves humanity best,
    or the general utility, or the happiness of
    the greatest numberno, the happiness of
    England. With all their powers they want to
    prove to themselves that the striving for English
    happinessI mean comfort and fashion (and at best
    a seat in Parliament) is indeed at the same time
    the right way to virtue.

14
From Beyond Good and Evil 228
  • None of these ponderous herd animals with their
    unquiet consciousness wants to know or even sense
    that the general welfare is no goal, no ideal,
    but only an emeticthat the demand for one
    morality for all is detrimental for the higher
    men, in short that there is an order of rank
    between man and man.

15
From Beyond Good and Evil 228
  • They are a modest and thoroughly mediocre type of
    man, these utilitarian Englishmen, and, as said
    above, boring.

16
From Beyond Good and Evil 225
  • Whether it is hedonism or pessimism or
    utilitarianismall these ways of thinking that
    measure the value of things in accordance with
    pleasure and pain are ways of thinking that
    everyone conscious of creative powers and
    artistic conscience will look down on not without
    derision.

17
From Beyond Good and Evil 225
  • You want, if possibleand there is no more insane
    if possibleto abolish suffering. And we? It
    really seems that we would rather have it higher
    and worse than ever. The discipline of
    suffering, of great sufferingdo you not know
    that only this discipline has created all
    enhancements of man so far?

18
From Beyond Good and Evil 225
  • But to say it once more there are higher
    problems than all problems of pleasure, pain, and
    pity and every philosophy that stops with them
    is a naivete.

19
What implications do Nietzsches views have for
  • Utilitarianism?

20
What implications do Nietzsches views have for
  • Hobbess social contract theory?

21
What implications do Nietzsches views have for
  • Lockes social contract theory?

22
What implications do Nietzsches views have for
  • Kants moral theory?

23
What implications do Nietzsches views have for
  • Socrates view?

24
What implications do Nietzsches views have for
  • Christianity?
  • Blessed are the poor
  • Blessed are the meek
  • If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn
    to him the other also.

25
From Genealogy of Morals 9
  • But why are you talking about nobler ideals?
    Let us stick to the facts the people have
    wonor the slaves or the mob or the herd or
    whatever you like to call them The masters
    have been disposed of the morality of the common
    man has won.

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From Genealogy of Morals 16
  • The two opposing values good and bad, good and
    evil have been engaged in a fearful struggle on
    earth for thousands of years and though the
    latter value has certainly been on top for a long
    time, there are still places where the struggle
    is as yet undecided.

27
  • What is the appropriate response to the
    (wide-spread although not complete) victory of
    slave morality?

28
  • One kind of response
  • A recrudescence
  • Nietzsche as offering a debunking explanation
    that returns everyone to the original, master
    morality.

29
  • Second kind of response
  • The herd will stay the same, but the bird of prey
    will learn once again to fly and swoop.
  • An esoteric morality, addressed only to the
    special few.

30
  • Third kind of response
  • Embrace the historical facts.
  • Transcend the dichotomy of master and slave
    morality.
  • Go beyond good and evil.

31
From Genealogy essay 2, section 19
  • The bad conscience is an illness, there is no
    doubt about that, but an illness as pregnancy is
    an illness.
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