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Single Idea 2884

[filed under theme 23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 3. Motivation for Altruism ]

Full Idea

Slave morality is essentially the morality of utility.

Gist of Idea

The morality of slaves is the morality of utility

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil [1886], §261)

Book Ref

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Beyond Good and Evil', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1973], p.178

The 36 ideas from 'Beyond Good and Evil'

7080 Metaphysics divided the old unified Greek world into two [Nietzsche, by Critchley]
7079 Nietzsche resists nihilism through new values, for a world of becoming, without worship [Nietzsche, by Critchley]
23440 Nietzsche's judgement of actions by psychology instead of outcome was poisonous [Foot on Nietzsche]
7078 The freedom of the subject means the collapse of moral certainty [Nietzsche, by Critchley]
6869 Nietzsche thinks the human condition is to overcome and remake itself [Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
2860 The most boring and dangerous of all errors is Plato's invention of pure spirit and goodness [Nietzsche]
1568 Nietzsche felt that Plato's views downgraded the human body and its brevity of life [Nietzsche, by Roochnik]
2867 Christianity is Platonism for the people [Nietzsche]
11090 Why do we want truth, rather than falsehood or ignorance? The value of truth is a problem [Nietzsche]
20140 We shouldn't object to a false judgement, if it enhances and preserves life [Nietzsche]
7834 Great philosophies are confessions by the author, growing out of moral intentions [Nietzsche]
20355 The ranking of a person's innermost drives reveals their true nature [Nietzsche]
2868 Nature is totally indifferent, so you should try to be different from it, not live by it [Nietzsche]
2291 A thought comes when 'it' wants, not when 'I' want [Nietzsche]
2871 Wanting 'freedom of will' is wanting to pull oneself into existence out of the swamp of nothingness by one's own hair [Nietzsche]
20381 It is psychology which reveals the basic problems [Nietzsche]
2872 In the earliest phase of human history only consequences mattered [Nietzsche]
20137 The great person engages wholly with life, and is happy to endlessly relive the life they created [Nietzsche]
2874 Man is the animal whose nature has not yet been fixed [Nietzsche]
2875 That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil [Nietzsche]
2876 The thought of suicide is a great reassurance on bad nights [Nietzsche]
2877 Morality becomes a problem when we compare many moralities [Nietzsche]
2859 The idea of the categorical imperative is just that we should all be very obedient [Nietzsche]
2878 We see an approximation of a tree, not the full detail [Nietzsche]
20134 Moralities extravagantly address themselves to 'all', by falsely generalising [Nietzsche]
2879 In ancient Rome pity was considered neither good nor bad [Nietzsche]
2880 The greatest possibilities in man are still unexhausted [Nietzsche]
22394 Democracy diminishes mankind, making them mediocre and lowering their value [Nietzsche]
2881 Virtue has been greatly harmed by the boringness of its advocates [Nietzsche]
20139 Only aristocratic societies can elevate the human species [Nietzsche]
20373 A healthy aristocracy has no qualms about using multitudes of men as instruments [Nietzsche]
2882 Morality originally judged people, and actions only later on [Nietzsche]
2883 Noble people see themselves as the determiners of values [Nietzsche]
2884 The morality of slaves is the morality of utility [Nietzsche]
20382 The four virtues are courage, insight, sympathy, solitude [Nietzsche]
2885 The noble soul has reverence for itself [Nietzsche]