Substance, Judgment, and Evaluation by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of America, Incorporated
Published: 2010-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality also uses historical narrative to criticize particular elements of the present – in this case, moral values. Nietzsche criticizes certain contemporary moral values (especially prevalent in Christianity and Buddhism, among other religious traditions), such as humility, meekness, nonviolence, deprecation of the senses and the body, and devaluing of present existence and reality in favor of something beyond it. He argues that such values, though often unquestionably considered as “good,” do not have an absolute, eternal nature as such; rather, by giving a history of how they came to be regarded positively, Nietzsche argues that they have their origins in human choices and practices, and could be altered thereby as well. Further, according to Nietzsche, these moral values should actually be devalued, as they are not only unnecessary but also profoundly harmful, causing misery from which we can and should escape. Nietzsche suggests that such moral values are subject to a self-overcoming (Third Essay, Section 27), and the text can serve as a kind of call to readers to themselves engage in this revaluation of values.

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