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  • Chapter 4 - Why Nietzsche is still in the morality game

  • Edited by Simon May, King's College London
  • Book:
    Nietzsche's <I>On the Genealogy of Morality</I>
    Published online:
    05 November 2011
    Print publication:
    13 October 2011, pp 78-100

  • Summary

    Nietzsche's thought it is necessary to propose the elements of an affirmation of life that is free of theodicy. Nietzsche diagnoses it to genuine life-affirmation need to consider the extraordinarily radical account of life-denial that emerges from the Genealogy. Intense effort has been devoted to reconstructing Nietzsche's portrayal of the values and concepts structured by slave morality and their search for transcendence of time, causality, fate, becoming all risk and danger. Life-affirmation is not a matter of merely reversing the valuations of life-denial. The pose of assuming that "life" or its suffering can be evaluated and justified is the pose of the life-denier. Fundamental philosophical positions that Nietzsche adopts, especially on the individuation of events and on determinism, also suggest that the individual event is a less suitable candidate for affirmation than the life in which it is situated.

  • Chapter 9 - Why would master morality surrender its power?

  • Edited by Simon May, King's College London
  • Book:
    Nietzsche's <I>On the Genealogy of Morality</I>
    Published online:
    05 November 2011
    Print publication:
    13 October 2011, pp 193-213

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses the master-slave distinction in Nietzsche's analysis; the domestication of culture and the attractions of slave morality; the role of Socrates in Nietzsche's historical picture; and the ambiguities in Nietzsche's account of master and slave morality. Nietzsche's genealogical treatment of traditional moral ideals aims to disturb the pretense of moral purity and the presumption of moral foundations by suggesting a different look at the historical context out of which these moral values arose. The Genealogy examines more than simply the moral and religious aspects of anti-natural forces in Western history; the focal term for such forces, the ascetic ideal, is also associated with philosophy and science, particularly with respect to a belief in truth. The chapter explores how Socrates could be woven into the Genealogy's account of cultural transformation.