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master-slave morality. In the Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche focuses on the relationship between Jews and Roman Palestine and Roman overlords. This is really the central conflict out of which this Hegelian idea of slave-master morality develops. The Jews, being the subjugated race, transvaluate all noble values of Good to benefit their own condition: weakness and meekness. Ascetic ideals, according to Nietzsche, demand that we interpret life as sinning and suffering: it proclaims the strong as the evil and the meek as the good encouraging bad conscience, hatred and ressentiment. Nietzsche believes that pity and nausea are the great sickness of humanity because they deny our will to power to recreate ourselves anew daily: strong and healthy. Too bad he doesn’t contemplate on Schopenhauer & Blake for too long,
“To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love
All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.
For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face,
And Love the human form divine,
And Peace the human dress.
And all must love the human form,
In heathen, Turk or Jew. Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell,
There God is dwelling too.”19
19 Blake, William. The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake. Songs of Innocence & Experience. The Divine Image.” New York, Anchor Books, Random House, 1988. 13
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