Friday, October 30, 2015
The Noble Slave
All week we have been talking about the philosopher Nietzche. This Philosopher's concepts are the hardest to grasp so far this year. This week we learned about the Nobles and Slaves and how they correlate to Evil and Good, respectively. The Nobles are near-perfect individuals: strong and good looking. The Slaves are the exact opposite with characteristics of being sickly, ugly, and powerless. Apparently sitting on top of your own success is Evil when there are "slaves" out there without their own success. Its hard to agree with this concept when you look at extreme situations. World leaders are some of the most important people in their countries they should be considered a Noble right? They represent their countries! The "slaves" of those countries are Good for living their life sick and in poverty? I cant wrap my head around it. It seems that Nietzche is insinuating that we should be "Noble Slaves": being rich and good looking, but only after you have started out poor and sickly; that is the only thing I can derive out of this philosopher. Sounds like a Cinderella story to me, a true comeback story, but what about those who cant start out at the bottom of the caste system, there has to be people at the top. Do they self sabotage themselves to go from rich to poor so they can make it to the top again? Maybe I'm not seeing the philosophy of Nietzche correctly, but if I am, honestly, its lonely at the top and I'd rather be successful and ridiculed for it than being looked upon as the Good of the world for living in poverty.
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Stephen I enjoyed your analysis of Nietzsche and the argument of the nobles and slaves as it relates to the analogy of good and evil. In class last week we talked a lot about the weak and their role in society. According to Nietzsche and our class societies are in many ways designed to protect the weak and in Nietzsche mind the weak can never pull themselves up only the strong can truly protect and bring someone up. It is interesting how many Noble individuals feel as though they are better or more beneficial for society than the weak. However, many people forget and need to be reminded that the weak actually move up and become strong if they decide for themselves that they want to control their own destiny.
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