Nietzsche vs. Mill

Essay # 3093

Philosophy > History - 19th Century
Political Science

Nietzsche vs. Mill

2,000 words () | 3 sources | 2001 United States

Paper Summary:

This essay discusses how Nietzsche believes slave morality, or Christianity, came to dominate. Additionally, the paper examines weather or not, like Mill in "On Liberty," Nietzsche recognizes that there are both advantages and disadvantages to Christianity as a moral doctrine. Furthermore, the paper examines Nietzsche's key reasons for believing that "God is dead"-that Christianity no longer supplies values-to understand how we now face the "horizon of the infinite."

From the Paper:

"First, we must examine the morality of the warriors, the master morality. Master morality is entirely pragmatic. The values created by the conquerors, or warriors, were structured to achievement in the present, on this world. This is resulting from achievers, from those with animal strengths, either physical or mental, to get things done on this earth. The warrior does precisely what he or she needs to do in a predatory way, just as the natural world has predatory beings. There is nothing limiting the warrior, no conscience. Warriors do whatever they want to do, whatever their strength enables them to do. Therefore, they create a system of "me" morals: What we do is right, so when we conquer you, our values are your values. Thus, master morality speaks of "good" and "bad" rather than the "Good" and "Evil" of slave morality."