What i expect to learn: I want to know if this could be applied today? And why is that morality have this kind of comparison
Qoute: “The essential thing, however, in a good and healthy aristocracy is that it should not regard itself as a fuction either of the kingship”
From the past up to today we still have this kind of comparison with the level of wealth people have or status they’ve gained through heredity. Well with this review it is applied as to how people would act to other people depending on what their status is. Friedrich describes Master morality as a person who is noble who has the right as to whatever he thinks his world conquers with and that those lower than him shouldn’t be given with the advantages or privileges he has. And that as a master himself should consider those lower people as slaves that he shouldn’t interact with them or he would be considered himself immoral at the instance of touching a slave or even having a glimpse with the slave with eye to eye contact. As a master himself he develops a ability or being a moral model to those who know him and that he should act morally all the time. As to exercise this ability he needs some kind of test subject or something that is lower than him.
Well obviously this would be contradicting as to what people are fighting for the past decades and that we should know that this shouldn’t be used today because of a democratic world that dominates over other possible master and slave thinking.
What I’ve learned:
I’ve learned that we should close the gap between a masters mindset and a slaves view of his/her life and that we should practice our way to devote to have equality.
Integrative Question:
- Are you a master or slave moral person?
- Referring to number 1, How can you say so?
- How did this review help you?
