says it is a sign of "slave morality" to limit responsibility as much a possible, as Scheler finds that we do today:
It is essential to note that modern morality is in every respect founded on distrust of men, particularly of their moral values. The merchant's fear of being cheated by his competitor has become the basic category of the very perception of others. It is this "distrust," so closely akin to ressentiment, which has brought about modern moral individualism and the denial of the principle of solidarity--attitudes that seem perfectly "self-evident" nowadays (Scheler 116).
The dissension between men and women over issues of equality and fairness erupted in a movement for real change in recent years after centuries of a clear social dichotomy between the roles of men and woman in Western society. The division reflects in part the same split as Nietzsche saw between Rome and Judea, between those with power (males) and those disenfranchised and seeking some change (women). For much of history, women acquiesced in the morality imposed by males, and this included the morality of Christianity which relegated women to a particular and subservient position in the church and in society. This creates a ressentiment against the prevailing and powerful moral position and leads to the development of a different moral structure. As the feminist movement developed, so did that sense of distrust which is close to ressentiment, as Scheler notes,but rather than bring about a denial of solidarity, it produced a version of it in terms of the solidarity of women to assert themselves.
Consider the origins of the movement in the nineteenth century in reaction to the perceived downgrading of women in patriarchal society. The role of women in nineteenth-century society was largely subordinate to the male and was also limited to the household to a very great degree. Middle- and upper-class women had an ideal for women, and the perfe...