Friedrich Nietzsche The Genealogy of Morals (part 4) | Existentialist Philosophy & Literature

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We finish our series studying Friedrich Nietzsche's work The Genealogy of Morals by discussing selected portions of the third essay.

We start out by discussing the connection between the roles of the Priest and the Philosopher as types of ascetics, the relationship between the Priest and the Herd, with both of these understood as "unhealthy types" in Nietzsche's view.

We also go through some of Nietzsche's views about affects (emotions, desires, etc), and how the Priest type uses affect-based remedies to redirect their own and the Herd's ressentiment. This allows some management of the guilt, nausea, and depression of herd existence.

We finish by asking whether an atheistic, scientific, anti-religious, anti-traditional viewpoint really escapes -- or simply continues -- the ascetic ideal, and with Nietzsche's view that a critique of the value of truth is now needed. As it turns out the Enlightenment, and the modern scientific mindset is really just an additional development of the ascetic idea, coming originally from the priests and then from the philosophers.

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