ARTSSCI 1A06 Chapter Notes - Chapter Nietzsche: Sparknotes, Lightning, Ressentiment
14 Aug 2020
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Nietzsche"s fear that we would have no morality from god/a higher power, and we would descend into chaos. Proof that nietzsche is not "anti-semitic" and doesn"t hold truly to either moral philosophy: "while master morality is better off for lacking ressentiment, it lacks the discipline and self- control necessary to fit nietzsche"s ideal. " "to illustrate his point, nietzsche takes as an example the sentence "lightning flashes. " Grammar would lead us to conclude that there is a subject "lightning" and a predicate "flashes. " Nietzsche argues that grammar, and only grammar, has led us to think of actions in terms of subjects and predicates. In reality, he suggests, ""the doer" is merely a fiction added to the deed the deed is everything. " Grammar has thus led us to think of a bird of prey as somehow separate from its expressions of strength, and thereby free either to kill or not to kill.
