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Need help interpreting chapter 9 from the first essay of the Genealogy of Morals
In this chapter Nietzsche says:
It is the church that repulses us, not its poison - apart from the Church we like the poison.
I am under the impression that "us" refers to the freethinker. ...
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What was Neitzche calling "old frigid and tedious frogs"?
After the first paragraph of the first essay of On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche discusses how English psychologists may be motivated to study the darker side of "our inner world". Then ...
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Intellectual History of Idea in A Geneaology of Morals Essay One
In Nietzsche's first essay in A Geneaology of Morals, he suggests that use of language in which subjects and verbs are distinguished may influence or at least correspond to conceptual distinctions in ...
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Nietzsche on Goethe: Not an ascetic priest, "He knows more."
Nietzsche constantly praised Goethe as being a truly remarkable human. But one passage from Genealogy of Morals does raise a question for me, after he spends much time setting up and criticizing the ...
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Why Nietzsche believes that victims barter the damage they receive with a violent feast to see their tormentor suffer in a feast?
In the second essay of On the Genealogy of Morality: Guilt, bad conscience and the like, 6, Nietzsche seems to defend the thesis that victims barter the damage they received with a violent feast to ...
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What is the relation between slave morality and free spirit in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality?
Considering the discussion on free-spirit by creating its own value system, how Nietzsche relate "free-spirit" and "slave morality"(its depth and its evilness)?
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Nietzsche challenging traditional morality
What exactly are the challenges to morality Nietzsche presents in the Genealogy of Morality? Is there a specific philosopher Nietzsche is responding to (like Kant, Aristotle, Plato, or Hobbes)? And is ...
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What are Nietzsche's basic views on morality?
Can someone give me a cue for Nietzsche's views on morality? I'm sorry, I haven't read any of his works completely yet, but 'Beyond Good and Evil', and his Darwinian context make me curious.
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Critique of Nietzsche's 'Ressentiment'?
I know roughly what Nietzsche conceives 'ressentiment' to be, basically the inability to react to (and hence festering of) the feeling of being oppressed and powerless over a long time.
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Friedrich Nietzsche - On the Genealogy of Morals - Slave Morality Imposition
Nietzsche says there is no being behind the doing and I agree with this idea. He also says the weak separated the doing from the being in order to condemn the strong for using theirs strength.
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Nietzsche on the idea of Alienation
Nietzsche believes that modern human beings were alienated from themselves. what was the nature of this alienation? how did we come to be alienated? what exactly are we alienated from?
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Why does Nietzsche blame all sufferers themselves for their suffering?
A novice, I do not feel prepared yet to read Nietzsche; but please tell me if his primary sources answer my question.
Source: p 98, Philosophy ; A Very Short Introduction (2002) by Edward Craig.
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Is Nietzsche saying here that agnostics admire the unintelligible?
I need help understanding the last two paragraphs of the 25th section, third essay, which is provided below from the free link: http://home.sandiego.edu/~janderso/360/genealogy3.htm
Similarly who ...
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Geneaology of Morals Essay 2 Section 21
I am having difficulty understanding this section. Does he mean that he doesn't bother moralizing the concepts of guilt and duty because he sees no point to moralize something that is disappearing(...
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Strong man of "ressentiment" and the ambiguity of Strength
I am new to the field of philosophy and am trying presently to read and understand Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals. In the first essay, he talks about the popular morality and ressentiment;
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