Ascetic Ideal
The one who causes “everything healthy necessarily [grow] sick, and everything sick tame” p. 129
Who is the ascetic priest?
Strong, aggressive people from the dominant and aristocratic class
Who are the masters?
Nietzsche describes this feeling as the internalization of aggression that cannot be expressed outwards, often leading to self-punishment.
What is bad conscience?
The three pillars of asceticism
What are Chastity, Humility, and Poverty?
The most evil slaves because they facilitate the slave revolt in morality
Who are the priests?
According to Nietzsche, ressentiment is particularly characteristic of these groups, who cannot act on their impulses and instead revalue their values.
What are slaves, the weak or oppressed?
The latest and noblest form of the ascetic ideal
What is science?
The change from good and bad to evil and good.
What is the slave revolt in morality?
Nietzsche argues that the shift from “master morality” to “slave morality” is largely driven by event, where the masters are redefined as evil.
What is ressentiment turned creative or the slave revolt in morality?
A place where educated people go to withdraw and become lonely in order to fulfil the ascetic ideal
What is the desert?
The type of morality uses cleverer but more sinister and hidden strategies than the other type of morality.
What is slave morality?
The human instinct that is turned inwards when bad conscience has been developed.
What is the will to power?
The strongest 'medication' of the ascetic priest that involves invoking many emotions in the sick person such as by provoking guilt.
What is the orgy of feeling?
Slaves reframed 'Inability for revenge' into this value (p. 47).
What is forgiveness?
Nietzsche links the origin of guilt and bad conscience to the invention of this social mechanism, which gives a person a penalty in case of nonpayment.
What is punishment/law or creditor-debtor relationship?