"What Is Noble?" by Nietzsche
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In his essay "What Is Noble?" Friedrich Nietzsche presents his argument for the master-morality and against the slave-morality. Nietzsche clearly believes that the master-morality is noble, and that the slave-morality is ignoble. Nietzsche supports the idea of a "good and healthy aristocracy" which "should . . . accept with a good conscience the sacrifice of a legion of individuals, who, for its sake, must be suppressed and reduced to imperfect men, to slaves and instruments" (46). The noble individual is the individual who makes his own morality, rather than allows others to determine his morality, as does the slave. To Nietzsche, the noble individual is the fearless one who knows and accepts the fact that "life is precisely Will to Power" (46). In other words, the noble individual recognizes that there are two types of people---those who have and use power (the noble), and those who have no power (the ignoble), who see themselves as powerless, and who are exploited by those who do have power. As Nietzsche writes,The noble type of man separates from himself the beings in whom the opposite of this exalted, proud disposition displays itself: he despises them. . . . The cowardly, the timid, the insignificant, and those thinking merely of narrow utility are despised. . . . The noble type of man regards himself as a determiner of values. . . . The noble man . . . helps the unfortunate, but not . . out of pity, but rather from an impulse generated by the superabundance of power
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e master. The slave has a pessimistic view of life and human nature, while the master has an optimistic view, seeing life as abundant with opportunity and human nature as vibrant with power and possibility for exploitation of the slave class.
If we apply Nietzsche's moral philosophy to marriage, the nuclear family, and the guarding of a nation, we find situations utterly opposed to conventional images. To Nietzsche, all considerations having to do with morality must be analyzed anew from the perspective of the master class. Nothing is to be taken for granted as being moral or immoral or good or evil from the conventional standpoint.
With respect to marriage, using this essay as a foundation for speculation, Nietzsche would likely argue that conventional marriage is a means whereby the slaves try to impose their will on the masters. The slaves are frightened of the passion for life which resides in them. When slaves rule a society, they want to control and deny their own will to power, their own sometimes uncontrollable passion for life---and for sex---as well as those same forces which are at work in others, and especially at work in the noble individuals Nietzsche describes. One can only guess, limited to this essay in terms o
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