![]() That feeling is, for Nietzsche, where the word “good” originated. One might imagine an ancient warrior-ruler looking in the mirror and feeling pride in hirself and hir power. ![]() The term “good” originates as a sort of feeling of pride that a certain type of person feels towards hirself. The first essay is entitled “Good and Evil/Good and Bad.” In this essay, Nietzsche finds two separate historical meanings for the term “good”: one of which was prior and more natural, and the other arose as a reaction to the original term. My plan is to continue this series by writing two more parts, covering the entirety of this masterwork of Nietzsche’s. The work is made up of three essays, and this essay will involve an exposition and critique of the first essay. “On the Genealogy of Morals” is considered to be his greatest ethical work. ![]() Nietzsche is and ought to be considered both icon and iconoclast in philosophy. ![]()
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