POL 3102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Kantian Ethics, Alcoholism, Dialectical Materialism
26 Jul 2018
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Nietzsche: utilitarianism = secular offspring of christian morality, similar to his attack on slave morality" (the morality of the herd). Slave revolt in morality": slaves are going to invent morality by turning everything that the master saw as good as now bad and vice versa. Differences: kant"s theory of morality"s uniform approach leads to a stagnation of ideas. Unthinking mediocraty (mill) vs. herd morality (nietzsche): master morality vs. liberal utilitarianism, nietzsche and marx could be argued to be distrustful of much of the philosophical tradition. Nietzsche: sees truth as a matter of interpretation, fundamental problem: nihilism. It acts only according to its principle and is not directed by consequence. Every moral claim we make is embedded in our language of rights: ex: you violated my rights, one of the first places of strong attack on the language of rights, highly limited wat of thinking about emancipation.
