Hmmm...

Alright everyone, after having not completely understanding the reading, I'm going to do my best in blogging about it. From what I understand, it is normal for our society to base our moral goodness on Noble Morality, i.e. beauty, power, and strength. But, when the weak develop their moral system, they base moral goodness on how beloved by God one is. According to this Slave Morality, people are what they are, whether that is weak or strong, intellectually or physically. But, according to this same morality system, those who are strong are accountable and responsible for being strong, even though they simply are strong. Those who are strong are also evil and not beloved by God, and therefore must act as though they are not strong in order to be less evil only because the weak cannot act or be strong, whereas the strong can choose to be weak. This seems a little wrong to me, because people cannot help what attributes and qualities they have over others- people simply are what they are. So why is it fair for the weak to say that the strong are evil, when even in the Noble Morality the strong do not say that the weak are evil, only that the strong are better? It is true that even the Noble Morality has its flaw, but it seems a little less biased and vengeful. Any thoughts on this? I hope I’m not totally off track here.

Also, what about the nonexistent difference between the action and the subject? Is Nietzsche saying that with each experience, the action and the subject are the same thing? How? Only lightning flashes but everyone yawns and sneezes and sleeps, etc. So how can there be no difference in an experience between the subject and the action? Sometimes it seemed as though there was a difference when discussing it during class discussion, and other times it seemed as though no difference existed and that the experience did not at all imply that different subjects can experience the same action. Or maybe it seemed that they were but they were not experiencing the subject performing action, which doesn’t make sense to me either because different subjects can perform the same action. I’m sorry if all of this is wrong- this me just trying to understand and reason out what in the hell Nietzsche is saying. What do you think?