PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Categorical Imperative, Ressentiment, Friedrich Nietzsche
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Follow only those maxims that can be ade into a universal law. Act in such a way that you treat humanity always also as a means, never merely as a means. Act as if you were a legislator in a merely possible kingdom of ends! Imagine yourself as a member of an ideal community of good wills (even if this community is merely possible, but not real!) Nietzsche - 3 essays of the genealogy. Master morality vs slave morality, slave revolt from ressentiment. Punishment, instinct for cruelty, internalization of the human being. Denial of the body, redirecting ressentiment, serving the ideal of objectivity. Nietzsche agrees that morality presupposes freedom, but he thinks that its idea of freedom is an illusion. Slave morality: everyone can become good (even though the entire framework privileges the qualities of the week and downtrodden) Modern punishment: criminals deserve to be punished, not because they disrupted the social fabric.
