This piece of work will try to find the answer to the...

This piece of work will try to find the answer to the question ‘In Nietzsche’s first essay in the Genealogy of Morals, does he give a clear idea of what good and bad truly are and what his opinion of those ideas is’. It will give a brief overview of his first essay, it will also go into greater detail of what he claims good and bad truly are, and finally look at what he is trying to prove with this argument. It will look at his background in order to see if and how that has influenced his work and opinions. Nietzsche introduces the differences between what he names later in his first essay the master morality and slave morality. The first master morality is the ideas of the nobles, including solders and other ruling classes. This he†¦show more content†¦He expresses his disappointment in the fact that these people cannot see history in a clearer and unbiased way, all they talk about and then again when they come to their conclusions their words and their conclusions are all influenced by the moral ideas of the time they live in. Nietzsche claims that to read history one must take an unbiased view and separate themselves from their own personal morals and ideas, and the morals and ideals of the society they live and were brought up in. this view should also be taken when reading the works of Nietzsche himself, meaning that for example, just because Nietzsche sees and talks about slave morality as having its beginning in what he called Jewish hate, when reading the piece you shou ld not take his words as a condemnation, of the Jewish ways, morality, or even of the ideal that is known as ‘hatred’. When he goes into detail he is not calling any of the things he mentions ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and in fact he seems to be criticizing what the people in modern times see as ‘good’ and ‘bad’ and if such concepts even truly exist . He later talks about how it is the morals and the loathing of what he names the ‘slave or priest classes’ for the ‘master’Show MoreRelatedStaying True to Self: Examining the Elements which Hinder Assimilation in Sherman Alexie’s Reservation Blues and Tyehimba Jess’ Leadbelly2263 Words   |  10 Pagesand traditions that changes an individual. Forced or willingly done, this act of assimilation is a loss of a person’s identity within his/or her own culture, whether he/or she is African, Native American, Chinese or Latino. However, who says that one must fully assimilate into another culture, taking on another’s entire way of living and committing to those beliefs, ridding oneself of one’s own heritage? 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