PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Moral Agency, Presupposition
Document Summary
Nietzsche: moral mechanics: treatise 2 is deconstructing moral agency, tries to show the genealogy behind moral agency. What it takes, historically, to develop a human being who is capable of moral action. We can learn through rewards but we learn much more quickly through pain. Bear in mind the distinction between the origin and the purpose of punishment (12: punishment has be repurposed" to its current use (13, analysis of punishment allows three main related points, links punishment to contract and exchange. Transformative link between mere random infliction of pain and the establishment of a justice" that is a matter of debt/repayment: attempting to avoid punishment (pain) means not allowing one"s ordinary violent impulses free play. To turn one"s aggressive instincts inside, repression". Led to the development of inner life and the mind, although at the: mechanisms of repression express themselves as various forms of denial: cost of our healthy psychology.
