Friedrich Nietzsche is considered one of the Western world’s deepest thinkers because he calls so many things into question. He felt that everyone would benefit greatly by questioning everything. In 1887 he wrote On the Genealogy of Morality to expand on his ideas he expressed through Beyond Good and Evil. On the Genealogy of Morality consists of three different essays that question and critique the value of our moral judgements. The first and the one I will focus on, being ‘Good and Evil’, ‘Good and Bad,’ in which Nietzsche discusses how goodness is relative to the eye of the beholder. He specifies two different types of groups, the first group being the militaristic and political group, which he has deemed the “masters.†The “masters†view “good†as having the characteristics of strength, power, freedom and achievement. The second group being the “slaves,†which is the group that is controlled by the masters. The slaves viewing “good†as having the characteristics of sympathy, charity, forgiveness, and humility.
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