Carefully explain Nietzsche’s distinction between master morality and slave morality. Which type of morality does Nietzsche prefer, and what are his basic reasons for doing so?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer:
"Every great people have become great by creating and following its own distinctive moral system---all of these can be reduced to two fundamental types: Master-morality and slave-morality."
Master-morality is created by those who occupy positions of power in aristocratic societies, societies that, according to Nietzsche, have produced every advancement or elevation of the human type. The essential moral distinction in master-morality is what is counted as "good" vs. "bad." Good is identified with that which is noble...that is with the personal traits of the masters, while "bad refers to what which is ignoble or base (personality of those who are ruled)."
Master-morality is a morality that values difference, honor, self-control, courage, vitality, and overflowing...It is a morality that encourages helping others but not out of pity or sympathy but rather in which one's vitality can be expressed.
He introduces a term called will to power. It refers to the vitality or over-flowing that characterizes the life of the master---indeed that characterizes healthy life in all its form.
Slave-morality is created by those in whom the will to power is decayed. Those that are oppressed by others. Its chief distinction is good and evil. Good refers to the traits of the oppressed—that is to meekness, humility, powerlessness, and servility- while "evil" refers to everything that characterizes those who possess power. The evil of slave-morality is the good of master morality.
Slave-morality values pity and sympathy. It is a morality that emphasizes utility while discouraging creativity. The master-morality is one which embraces an aristocratic mode of thinking...a mode of thinking that views the "good" in terms of self-assertion rather than self-denial.
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