FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The Will to Power Master Slave Morality
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Nietzsches moral

• God is dead
• Nietzsche
• Nietzsche is dead
• God
• (Graffiti found in BA)

The death of God would lead to the loss of any
universal perspective of things and any coherent
sense of objective truth. There is a God in each
of us, waiting to be born.
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The Will to Power It is the only law and the only
morality. It applies to all living things. The
pressure for survival or adaptation is less
important than the desire to expand ones
power. Living in itself appears as a subsidiary
aim, something necessary to promote ones
power. The notion of the will to power is
contrasted by Nietzsche with that of
utilitarianism, which claims all people want
fundamentally to be happy. Humans are divided
into a natural aristocratic group and a naturally
dependent and inferior one, which are always
opposed. Exploitation is a natural consequence of
the will to power. Superior people express the
will to power, taking advantage of their natural
gifts to achieve their full potential and
dominance over others. Inferior people use
different ideologies, or slave moralities, to
try to deny the will to power. Self expressing
the will to power truly living cant be
wrong.
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Master Slave Morality Master morality is the
original system of morality. This is the
morality of the SUPERIOR PEOPLE. They are BEYOND
GOODAND EVIL. They believe that what is
injurious to them is injurious in itself. Good
is associated with wealth, strength, health,
inspiring fear and power. It means
power-enhancing, tending to the full development
of natural ability. Bad is related with the lack
of power, poor, weak, sick and pathetic. It
means contemptible, power-diminishing, tending
to the artificial limitation of natural
ability. To fulfill full human potential, the
noble soul lives according to the first law of
nature the Will to Power.
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Slave morality is a social illness. It is
essentially a morality of utility. This is the
morality of the INFERIOR PEOPLE. Most slaves
choose to be victims. This morality favours a
limited existence. It makes the best of a bad
situation. It promotes virtues such as pity, the
complaisant and obliging hand, warm heart,
patience, humility and friendliness, which serve
to ease existence for those who suffer. Good is
related to charity, pity, restraint, and
subservience. It means tending to ease
suffering. Evil is seen in the cruel, selfish,
wealthy, indulgent and aggressive. It means
tending to inspire fear.
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Vosotros hombres superiores, aprended esto de
mí en el mercado nadie cree en hombres
superiores. Y si queréis hablar allí, bien! Pero
la plebe dirá parpadeando todos somos iguales.
Vosotros hombres superiores, -así dice la
plebe parpadeando- no existen hombres superiores,
todos somos iguales, el hombre no es más que
hombre, ante Dios todos somos iguales!. Ante
Dios! - Mas ahora ese Dios ha muerto. Y ante la
plebe nosotros no queremos ser iguales. Vosotros
hombres superiores, marchaos del
mercado! Vosotros hombres superiores, ese Dios
era vuestro máximo peligro. Sólo desde que él
yace en la tumba habéis vuelto vosotros a
resucitar. Sólo ahora llega el gran mediodía,
sólo ahora se convierte el hombre superior - en
señor! Habéis entendido esta palabra, oh
hermanos míos? Estáis asustados sienten vértigo
vuestros corazones? Veis abrirse aquí para
vosotros el abismo? Os ladra aquí el perro
infernal? Bien! Adelante! Vosotros hombres
superiores! Ahora es cuando la montaña del futuro
humano está de parto. Dios ha muerto ahora
nosotros queremos -que viva el superhombre. And
thus spoke Zarathustra - 1883