
Episode 11: Nietzsche’s Immoralism: What Is Ethics, Anyway?
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is It Razantama That Leads to Bad Conscience?
There is a distinction between what he calls resantima and bad conscience. Bad conscience, in this context, is what happens when you suppress or sublimate your will to power because it's moral to do so. Essentially, it's not so much guilt as kind of like, think, an angry resentment over the lack of things that we have. I haven't heard what you guys think of whether this is just complete, since he just is kind of stating it. Do you get thattypical, typical nici that he doesn't argue so much? He gives illustrations, he gives strong opinions, but if you ultimately don't agree with his observation, especially these sort of aesthetic and
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