Ecce Homo

The priestly involvement in good and bad

• Being pure is not necessarily being good, but according to priests being impure is the same as being bad or evil
• But what is the difference evil and bad? And how would priests define these differences since impure means both?
• Nietzsche says that priests are the most evil enemies (Maybe as bad as the Jews???)
• Those who have power determine the values of the age
• This is why values continue to change all time
• Since Christians have the power today, they determine the values and priests decide what is right and wrong

The dialogue:

• Mr. Rash and Curious is really just the author's crazy side. He most definitely wrote this during one of his rages.
• OR...
• Maybe he just had some strange ideas about how to get his point across

So what is the point of Section 14?

Good Steaks and Good Deeds

Hmmm...some food for thought. What is the meaning of the word good? Try defining it without using the word or the emotions it evokes. Does a good steak evoke the same pleasure as good deed? Is there even such a thing as an entirely unselfish good deed? And why is this deed good in the first place?

Nietzsche raises so many questions about the origin of good and evil and bad. Let's start from what I think I know: Evil and bad are not the same thing. Both are opposites of good, but they have different meanings. So when you use good, there is obviously more than one meaning right? Maybe we just forgot the connection between evil and bad and good...there must be one word to unite them all.

The meanings of good and bad and evil change over time. (By the way, the whole world is stupid and it is everyoneelse's fault, expect Nietzsche's, that good and evil and bad cannot be defined. The Jewish, the Germans, and the Aryans keep messing up the definition!)

Neee- Chee

On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche:

First, I would like to point out that there is a dead ( I assume) man on the cover next to a tree (now that is deep!) But onto the real point this whole rambling essay and some questions about this strange, strange author.

1. Nietzsche wants to discuss the roles of good and evil and how we have defined good and evil.
2. So how did good judgement come about? Nietzsche answers this... but I'm still confused on the second essay.
3. So... the rich are good and the poor are bad/evil.
4. What is the difference between bad and evil? Is there a difference? Why are both used as antonyms for good?
5. So how did this guy come up these philosophies in the first place? Why did he even bother?
6. Ressentiment = resentment (or at least that is what I understood from the introduction)

...... More on this later......