Session 2
- Topics: Nietzsche On the History of Morality, The Two Types of Morality, and “Ressentiment”
- Reading: On the Genealogy of Morals, 15-23 -- Preface: 1-8, 24-27, 33-46 -- 1st Essay: 1-3, 7-13.
- What is the central question (subject) Nietzsche is exploring in this polemic?
- What does Nietzsche mean when he says prior attempts of understanding morality lack an historical awareness (i.e. “unhistorical”)?
- What are the two types of people in the world and how does this relate to the two types of morality that developed in history?
- What is Nietzsche’s understanding of “ressentiment” and how does it relate to his notion of “slave morality?”
- What does Nietzsche mean when he states that “you cannot separate the doer from the doing?”