Master morality
Philosophical term after Friedrich Nietzsche , which describes a moral system of the rulers, which is contrary to the slave morality . The basic definition is found in: Beyond Good and Evil , What Is Noble, Section No. 260:
- "There is master morality and slave morality - I immediately add that in all higher and more mixed cultures attempts to mediate both morals come to light, even more often the confusion of the same [...], even their harsh coexistence - even in the same person, within a soul. The moral value distinctions arose either under a ruling species, which was well aware of its difference from the ruled - or among the ruled, the slaves and dependents of every degree. "
This origin of morality results in the opposing values "good" and "bad" or, in the case of slave morality, "good" and bad ":
- "... if it is the rulers who determine the concept of" good ", it is the elevated, proud states of the soul which are felt to be what distinguishes and determines the hierarchy. The noble man separates the beings from himself the opposite of such lofty, proud states is expressed: he despises them. Note immediately that in this first kind of morality the opposition "good" and "bad" means as much as "noble" and "contemptible" "
According to Nietzsche, "the noble type of person [...] feels himself to be value-determining, it does not need to be approved, it judges" what is harmful to me is harmful in itself "". The master's morality is therefore a moral for people who shape, have power, who have a "feeling of abundance, of power that wants to overflow". Even the noble person helps the unfortunate, but "not or almost not out of pity, but rather out of an urge that the abundance of power generates".
Individual evidence
Web links
- wikiseminar.net: Men's morality at Nietzsche
- Samuel Lang: What the left can learn from Nietzsche Das Lamm , September 19, 2018
