Friedrich Nietzsche: Master- and Slave-Morality

The main points of Nietzsche’s discussion is his view of a healthy society, the slave- and master-morality, he view on injury, violence and exploitation, a creator of values or a noble man and the will to power.

According to Nietzsche’s discussion, a healthy society is a society where kingship and commonwealth is disregarded. He said that a healthy society must be regarded as a the significance and highest justification which would mean that there has to be people who, with a good conscience, would make a sacrifice, be submissive and lessen their value as person. In other words they are the imperfect men, slaves and instruments. This leads to the concept of slave- and master-morality.

Master-morality refers to the superior and dominant people. They are the ones who have the strength, power, egoism and freedom. This description reminds me of the Nazis and the Japanese who conquered our country years back. They were powerful people who proved their strength by harming other people and threatening others. They considered themselves as superior people with power, strength, freedom and egoism. On the other hand, Slave-morality calls for weakness, submission, sympathy and love. They are the so-called slaves to the powerful. The people who remind me of this description are the Jews during the Nazis time, Filipinos during the Japanese occupation and the slaves of Egypt in the Bible.

Nietzsche views injury, violence and exploitation as a means of survival. For him, these three are ways to show power and strength. One must cause harm, violence and exploitation in order to show their strength and power. For him, if you do not show “power and strength” by causing violence, injury and exploitation, you are then, not considered a strong person instead, you’re weak and a slave.

He also discussed what a creator of values is or what a noble man is. This is in relation to the quote I have chosen and typed above. A creator of values disregards the rules of the society and the rules of God. A creator of values is his own judge which means that for him, the he is doing something right if he think he is doing something right regardless of whether he harms another person or not. Then, he also discussed the concept of will to power. This means, a person’s will to survive by being strong. Will to power means doing whatever it takes to survive, through power and strength, no matter if they harm someone or not.

In my opinion, Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideas are really chaotic and extremely scary. If this is the case, there would be no peace and order which is necessary for what I would consider a healthy and good society. If we lived in a world where his ideas apply or at least during the time of the Nazis, the Japanese and other similar and dominant people, there would be a lot of war and a lot of people dying. It’s just a really really scary thought.