Morality pt.1 : brief summary (2-15-12)

After reading some of Friedrich Nietzsche's work, "The Gay Science" and "The Geneology of Morals" are the ones that really tripped me out. To briefly summarize what I got out of the Geneology of Morals I'll start off by explaining how Nietzsche perceives morality. For him morality is split up into 2 : master's morality and slave morality. Masters morality is for him, the way to go, the way we should value things, because they create values in a "positive active" way. For example, in midieval times Monarchs, the nobles and other rulers would geniunely value something and make it seem like a moral truth to the public, so master's morality derives from free will. Slave morality is a metaphorical term that Nietzsche used to describe the peasants', the workers', and the innoble's way of creating values. They created values in a "negative reactive way." For example, they deemed bad what ever the nobles were doing and created values that opposed the master's morals, so slave morality derives from resentment, guilt, and animosity.