Sunday, March 22, 2009

On Being Crazy

Nietzsche has two different points in these passages. First, he talks about the mentality of higher authority, the nobles, and how they the view good and evil. They mainly focus on the good of pleasure and happiness, since the don't see the evil all too often. then for the lesser man, the psuedoslave, he deals with the bad on a daily basis, with resentment towards having to deal with misfortunes and crappy situations. He then begins to view the good of the noble man as the very evil of the world. The luxuries the noble men love are viewed upon as tings of evil to men who deal with hardships. But Nietzsche doesn't think we need to change this, for he believes the slave mentality today has created our world into something boring and uneventful by keeping the strong from expressing their strength by making restrain a thing of good. Then later, Nietzsche moves to his lamb versus bird scenario. Here, Nietzsche argues how many make the misconception of action and somethings title to be seprate. Using his example, killing becomes just something a bird of prey does, or as a murderer does, or as a terrorist does. But in actuality the will of something to perform that action is what defines it. Our actions define us. Because the bird murdered the lamb, it becomes a bird of prey. It is not us simply performing deeds, but whatever deeds we wish to do define who we are.

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