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Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality

In Our Time: Philosophy

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What Is Slave Morality?

Stephen Mullen: According to Nietzsche's analysis of the situation, it's no accident that what slave morality defines as evil is what master morality defines as good. So you have a paradoxical situation where on the one hand, the slaves are manifesting strength by imposing themselves on the world and redefining it in terms which are to their own advantage. On the other hand, they do it by presenting a code in which, as it were, life is denied,. And a certain kind of negative force, as Fiona was saying, is imposed.

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