Understanding the Morality of Slaves and Masters
Moral of Slaves and Masters
- Moral of Slaves: Christian morality is the result of the rebellion of the slave class. Its measurements “weaken life” and are based on resentment and revenge, extolling the virtues of the weak, which is a synonym for submission. Its features are: passive, not creative, love of neighbor, brotherhood, and tranquility; egalitarianism considers the conscious life of power as “bad”.
- Moral of Lords: This moral exalts life, power, pride, and self-assertion. The good is seen as superior. It has the following characteristics: active and creative, the soul emerges, contrasting pride with good and evil, while ignoring the equal and inferior.
The moral of Lords has been the morale of warriors or priests.
The priest convinces the patient that he is guilty of his illness; he provides comfort and offers an ascetic ideal (to give up passions and feelings). This ideal, as Nietzsche argues, is unnatural because man has “free will”.
The overcoming of nihilism through willpower and understanding the mystery of the eternal recurrence enables the revaluation of prevailing values: not only of Christian morality but also the morality of masters.
The Critique of Traditional Metaphysics
This critique is based on an error: the antithesis of values, believing that things of value do not derive from the underworld, but from God, or “another world”. The ontological aspect of the critique of traditional metaphysical ontology is “static”, a fixture that will not be seen in this world, thereby taking its own. Thus, what man knows is pure appearance. This world is unreal, and to be sure of the truth, we must look at the other. The dogmatic speculation over the movement of the world is flawed because whatever being we cannot study in the whirlwind of comings and goings. This separation between “being real” and “becoming apparent” leads to negative value judgments about life, as it prioritizes the world of ideas. However, in reality, there is no apparent or real world, but the fate of being through creating and destroying the world. According to Nietzsche, ontology is based on the prejudices of philosophers against life, such as death, old age, etc. Therefore, the prospect of being is related to morality, which Nietzsche divides into real and apparent, critiquing the unnatural morality of Plato and Christianity.
The New Ontology: The Will to Power
The will to power is an interpretation of reality. Upon learning of the death of God, man investigates the causes of nihilism, being able to replace it. It is not domination, oppression, or a psychological faculty of appropriating something external, while opposing the will to truth, as this is merely appearance. It truly means a metaphysical passion, a dynamic reality, but being neither being nor becoming. It is the insatiable desire to display and perform power, a capacity to aspire to more, grow, intensify, and dominate. It is the affirmation of life itself and the projection that promotes its deployment. In a drive, knowledge, and assessment, the Superman embodies and expresses the will to power, characterized by creativity and the will to power. However, the will of man is limited in time, so we must understand time more adequately.
The will to power is an interpretation of reality. Upon learning of the death of God, man investigates the causes of nihilism, being able to replace it. It is not domination, oppression, or a psychological faculty of appropriating something external, while opposing the will to truth, as this is merely appearance. It truly means a metaphysical passion, a dynamic reality, but being neither being nor becoming. It is the insatiable desire to display and perform power, a capacity to aspire to more, grow, intensify, and dominate. It is the affirmation of life itself and the projection that promotes its deployment. In a drive, knowledge, and assessment, the Superman embodies and expresses the will to power, characterized by creativity and the will to power. However, the will of man is limited in time, so we must understand time more adequately.
The New Anthropology: The Superman
The Superman is the goal or artistic project, the great work of political philosophers and artists, heirs to the death of God. It is not a consequence of evolution or history, but a necessity created. It is an ideal, a man to be overcome. It is the man who, in the evolution of life, is characterized as strong and life-affirming, without the need for learned prejudices. It is more than a specific individual; it is a state reached by the acceptance of becoming and eternal return in time. We must dominate the earth from its overabundance, never feeling guilty about poverty or preventing compassion for the weak. The “great experimental policy” signifies the ethical project Nietzsche prepares for the world for the arrival of the Superman through the creation of values and ways of living.
The Superman is the goal or artistic project, the great work of political philosophers and artists, heirs to the death of God. It is not a consequence of evolution or history, but a necessity created. It is an ideal, a man to be overcome. It is the man who, in the evolution of life, is characterized as strong and life-affirming, without the need for learned prejudices. It is more than a specific individual; it is a state reached by the acceptance of becoming and eternal return in time. We must dominate the earth from its overabundance, never feeling guilty about poverty or preventing compassion for the weak. The “great experimental policy” signifies the ethical project Nietzsche prepares for the world for the arrival of the Superman through the creation of values and ways of living.
The New Conception of Time: The Eternal Return of the Identical
This is the deepest knowledge about time and fundamental truth, which transcends all knowable truths. Nietzsche presents it as a prophecy, in which life is a mythical ring always equal to itself. Since everything lacks a rational structure, life also lacks a sense vector, historical and established in progressive Western cultures. Before Nietzsche, this theory was expounded by pre-Socratic philosophers like Anaximander and Heraclitus. The essence of what exists is the will to power, but this is exhausted, so it will reappear. Although Nietzsche does not elaborate much on this simulation of development, he thought it would provide a full understanding of events. He has a clear sense of ethics, as man must live an infinite number of times, and must do so in a way by which he wants to live. Not only must we endure, but we must also love what happens.
This is the deepest knowledge about time and fundamental truth, which transcends all knowable truths. Nietzsche presents it as a prophecy, in which life is a mythical ring always equal to itself. Since everything lacks a rational structure, life also lacks a sense vector, historical and established in progressive Western cultures. Before Nietzsche, this theory was expounded by pre-Socratic philosophers like Anaximander and Heraclitus. The essence of what exists is the will to power, but this is exhausted, so it will reappear. Although Nietzsche does not elaborate much on this simulation of development, he thought it would provide a full understanding of events. He has a clear sense of ethics, as man must live an infinite number of times, and must do so in a way by which he wants to live. Not only must we endure, but we must also love what happens.