Friedrich Nietzsche · Philosophy

Master and Slave Morality

Nietzsche’s genealogy of morals - his radical claim that our morality of ‘good and evil’ arose from a ‘slave revolt,’ the resentment of the weak against the strong, inverting an older ‘noble’ morality.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Nietzsche traced our morality to a ‘slave revolt’ - the resentment of the weak inverting the noble values of the strong. Explain master morality, slave morality, and the genealogy of morals, in your own words.

Leads to Michel Foucault.

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