Nietzsche

I understand Nietzsche’s philosophy, but I do not agree with everything that he says. He states that moral values were invented by the weak to protect the weak. By having this set of values an individual is given the opportunity to blame someone else for his action or given the opportunity to excuse his action. What this means is that the person is being allowed to separate his or herself from what he actually does. This is a silly way to view things since we can't say that our actions don't determine who we are as a person when action are exactly what determines who we are.  

I also understand that we cannot just allow the strong to take advantage of the weak simple because they are strong; so the question is, should we use moral values as a way to protect the weak, or should we allow the strong to show their strength with strength instead of weakness?

All this week we have been discussing the Philosopher Nietzsche. The thing about him that stood out to me immediately was he said that "God is dead." Before hearing the context of the quote I thought this would be a philosopher who I would disagree with on a lot of views, but it wasn't until it was explained that I realized he was right. Nietzsche meant that religion is dead in the world so therefore "God is dead." I feel like this statement is very relatable today, because I feel as if these days people are more attached and faithful to material things and themselves rather than  religion.  This kind of ties into the other aspect I agree  with Nietzsche on. He believes the stronger and more noble people in the world should look out and help those who are weaker and less fortunate. I agree with him on this because just because someone is better at something that doesn't make them superior to others. God created us as equals and that's how it should be and how we should treat others.

All this week we have been discussing the Philosopher Nietzsche. The thing about him that stood out to me immediately was he said that "God is dead." Before hearing the context of the quote I thought this would be a philosopher who I would disagree with on a lot of views, but it wasn't until it was explained that I realized he was right. Nietzsche meant that religion is dead in the world so therefore "God is dead." I feel like this statement is very relatable today, because I feel as if these days people are more attached and faithful to material things and themselves rather than  religion.  This kind of ties into the other aspect I agree  with Nietzsche on. He believes the stronger and more noble people in the world should look out and help those who are weaker and less fortunate. I agree with him on this because just because someone is better at something that doesn't make them superior to others. God created us as equals and that's how it should be and how we should treat others.

Nietzsche

This week, we learned about Nietzsche and his belief that morality was created by weak, slavish people who had ressentement (or envy) towards the strong and their advantages in the world. The weak decided that God loves them simply because they were weak and since they are the majority, this belief has been carried down for centuries. Nietzsche also says that morality is a fabrication because values differ between each individual, and there is not a set of values that can be given out to everyone.
The issue with this morality is that it keeps strong and intelligent from using their full potential to get what they want. Nietzsche and his beliefs remind me a lot of a short story called Harrison Bergeron. In the 1962 tale that is set in the future America, there are new Amendments that give a a lot of "equality" to the country. To summarize the story, everyone who has an advantage- intelligence, strength, beauty, etc., is handicapped. The strong carry sand bags to make them weaker, the intelligent wore a radio in their ears that rang a piercing a sound every twenty seconds, and the beautiful wore bags to conceal themselves. The main character,  14 year old Harrison, is very strong and very intelligent boy who escapes from jail with the intent to overthrow the government. His parents watch him on the breaking news as he declares himself emperor and selects a gorgeous empress to rule beside him. In his very brief ruling, he ordered musicians to play their best, not averagely like they always had. As he danced with his empress, he was gunned down by the government because they cant have anyone with an advantage running around.
As soon as we learned about Nietzsche, Harrison Bergeron stood out to me. If you want to read it, here's the link:

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

Friedrich Nietzsche

This week we started on Nietzsche. He was famous for saying "God Is Dead".He was an atheist.  I think what he meant was that there was a decline in belief in God or a decline in religion itself and more people were becoming atheist. When I first started reading the essay I was confused but as I continued I began to grasp understanding. Based on the class discussion, I would rather live in a world with Noble mode of valuation. I say this because I believe that you have strength, you shouldn't have to act as if you're weak. I feel as if you should determine to the good in people first instead of the evil or flaws. Any opinions?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Throughout this week we have been discussing in class the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche's work Beyond Good and Evil, discusses the origin of morals into to to different groups. The groups consisted of: what is good or bad and what is good or evil. The concept of morality comes from the weaker group the ones that choose between good and evil. The good and evil group have a "slave" morality, consisting of things in society that most deem as undesirable, The slave-morality group sees things differently from the good and bad group. The good and bad group concentrate on the strength and weakness of the body, strength being good and weakness being bad. While the good and evil group do not follow the inequality of the other group and choose to create their own for of what is right by escaping and getting away from their inferiority of the other group. Creating what we consider as morals. Do you feel that Nietzsche's representation of moralities is accurate? Tell me in the comments below.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Over the past week began our discussion on Friedrich Nietzsche. We discussed his genealogy of moral. It was seen that the "good" people were seen as noble or powerful ones. It was seen that these people were beloved by God. Nietzsche disagrees with this is a sense that God loves the weak and the ones unable to protect themselves. In his story with "The Lambs and the Birds of Prey" Nietzsche  does not disagree with the preying on the lambs because that's the circle of life. To ask the birds to not kill would be just as strange as asking the lambs to go kill something. I tend to agree with Nietzsche in the sense that the powerful should look after the weak. The weak are the ones who struggle and are less corrupted by greed and many other sins which earn them a certain love from God that many people of wealth may lose through their actions.