On the Genealogy of Morality

In our selected readings from Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche begins by formulating a background for morality using a slave-master analogy. Nietzsche goes in depth on how these two drastically different social classes develop their morality. Those with a higher or more noble social status, the masters, tend to define terms of 'good and bad' and 'good and evil' in terms that since they are since they are noble they are good.

The slave morality, Nietzsche argues is more based in ressentment, that what the slave views as good is the oppisite of what the master views. This difference of moral basis, i feel, erodes the basis for an inate human morality. That each group of people, and ultimately each individual, dfines their morality differently from another in no way strenghtens the idea that there is one right and wrong.

I find this idea of different clases defining their own morality very interesteing. We have seen that there are many interperations of the zombie, and I think this idea can be most easily applied to the social zombie we have seen in a few works. Even if the social zombie is not concieoulsy aware of it, they must have some basis for morality, some underlying unification that govers how or if they work together. With this idea of morality exisiting outside the human, as zombies are definitely not human, we cannot with complete certianty say that morality is strictly a human concept.