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Ferguson, Engvid, Actulized, G.B. Sadler: Lectures on ‘Friedrich Nietzsche: Genealogy of Moral’ 3, 4.
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Surprisingly, after reconsidering such terms as good and bad, I discovered an interesting professor on YouTube, who has lectures on Nietzsche’s ‘Genealogy of Moral,’ where the latter makes a deep analysis of the subject. I read the book long time ago in Russian translation, but it seems as if at that time I wasn’t able to understand what the book was about at all. So it’s worth to talk a little bit about how I understand it now. Nietzsche uses the so-called ‘historical method,’ and shows how the notion ‘good’ has changed its meaning over the course of human’s evolution. He stands in opposition to utilitarianism, which defines ‘good’ as synonym for ‘useful.’ Nietzsche derives his definition of good from what he calls ‘noble,’ namely, a group of people who has enough power to consider themselves superior to the crowd, mob, herd, or whatever else it may be called. So these noble people create ‘values,’ and what they think is good becomes good for everybody else. Then, there is another group of people who are inferior to the noble, and their radicals create opposite ‘values,’ which leads to a kind of quarrel of values. On one side we have Rome; on the other, Christianity. According to Nietzsche this is not only an external quarrel, but each individual has this contradiction projected inside. I guess Freud developed his concept of id and ego out of this contradiction, though he probably wasn’t aware of that.
There was an amazing explaining of what Nietzsche thought about ‘resentment,’ but I already have no place to put it down here. Maybe I’ll continue tomorrow.
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