PSCI 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Man Man, Glaucon, Mass Society
14 Apr 2016
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The first essay is about moving beyond good and evil; tracing the origins of these cultural/moral concepts and revealing what they enable and what the repress. Good and evil are not objective phenomenon, but subjective values; they are cultural/historical products that can be examined and deconstructed. Good and evil are relational concepts that have a history and an origin; they are the result of struggle and reversal; they represent the triumph of. Christianity over classical values: relate to each other; without good you would have no conception of evil, product of resentment. In order to reject christianity as a value system; nietzsche sets out to contrast it with classical value systems; in greece and rome; the masters and not the slaves set the standard of value. As with hegel in the master/slave dialectic; master morality was the original morality; the rule of the elite the aristocratic/warrior heroic class.
