Nietzsche’s Morality Nowadays

            Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most influential German philosophers in the XIX century. In his writings he characterized power as the driving force for most people. His most important thinking is “the will of power”. Nietzsche’s morality consists of morality as anti – nature, immorality. According to him, the real moral people are the people with power. It is in human nature to seek power and poverty. Every person wants to have power over another person. Nowadays we can see this accomplished by many people. It is a fact that 90 percent of the world poverty is concentrated only in few people in contrast to the population of the world.

            Nietzsche creates his own morality, consisting of people with power. According to him, the people with power are really the moral people and therefore they are the “good” people. Everyone else is bad, immoral person. He created the so-called “will to power”, which has two meanings. The first meaning is what all human beings posses. It is the will to have food, poverty, emotions, feelings, and sensations. In one word – striving. The second meaning of the will to power is the will of social power. According to Nietzsche, one must exploit other people as much as he can, and there must not have place for petty. The people, who are exploiting other people, are the people with power, and they are the good people. The rest – the people who are been exploited are the people without power, the bad people. And because they cannot have the power, they are trying to sabotage those with power, trying to take them down. By doing that they become the bad people.

            According to Nietzsche, the religion is the main source of corrupting the morality. The religion is responsible for bringing evil to the world. The religion is telling that everyone should share what they have, they are supporting the masses, or the people without power. By doing that they are also sabotaging the people with power, therefore they are trying to ruin the morality, they are responsible for bringing all the evil around the world. The religion also has a will to power. It wants to control and posses everything, but because it does not has that power, it tries sabotage the people who have it.

            All that was the so-called “master – slave morality”, where people with power are the masters and everyone else is the slave. According to Nietzsche, this is the moral, natural order of the world. And everyone, who tries to change it, is responsible for bringing evil.

            Nowadays, the order seems to be the same. We have few people with power, who control the whole world, and everyone else is fighting for his surviving. We can see how everyone is exploited, and also exploiting someone else. Take for example the hierarchy of any business. There you have investors who control everything. Then comes the owner who controls his employees, and so on. But the question is – is that moral and is that the order of the things nowadays? Unfortunately the answer is “YES”.

            First of all, let us look again at the example, which I mentioned before. We have hierarchical order, on the top of which there is one person who control everything. This person is the person with power. He can do everything what he want. He can fire employees, gives a higher or lower wages, make changes in his business – everything. That makes him the master, and everyone else the slave, because everyone else is dependant on him. In our society and life it is consider something normal. The “boss’ or the person with power is good because he gave is a job, he gave us wages with which we can pay our bills (which are another example of the master – slave morality). We are thankful to him, and we say that he is a good moral person. Now if some employee is not happy about his wage for example, he start to speak bad things about his “boos” and he tries to sabotage his business. That makes him bad person in the eyes of everyone, no matter that hi might be right. It is just consider wrong.

            Second, let us take a look at our government, and more specifically at our everyday bills, fees, and taxes. It is fact that every year they increase steadily. Every year our government decides that the country has no money, and a new tax is been born. People must pay them no matter that they have no money, and their wages stay the same. If one do not pay them, he is being charged with late fee, and even worse, he may go to jail. Is that moral? Well it is considerate moral by the people who made the taxes and fees. By the people with power, the people who rule our country – government. If one do not pay his taxes, he is not moral; he is a bad person and needs to go in jail.

            Third example is if someone robs a bank. That is considered also immoral, and the person is considered bad. But if that person has no choice, if he is forced to by so because of the high taxes and bills, and he has no money to pay them? It is still considered wrong. It is considered wrong because those money are the money of the rich people, the people with power. They make the laws and they are the one who said that this is immoral, that this is not right. Moreover, Nietzsche would say that the robbers are bad people because they try to sabotage the people with power. But this is also a will to power. These people rob the bank because of the will to power. They are striving for power, they want to have power. The only way to have power is through money. The more money one has, the more powerful in the society he will be. It is just the human nature.

            Now let us take a look at the religion. According to Nietzsche, the religion is responsible for bringing evil. The religion creates its own world where it stays at the top of everything. It creates imaginary evil spirits, demons in order to sustain its power. It creates punishment. Moreover, according to Nietzsche, the religion is responsible for bringing the most dangerous error – mistaking the effect for the cause. Nietzsche called that the real corruption of reason. It is contained in every sentence which religion and morality formulate. He gives a good example of that with the book of Cornaro, in which I will not go in details.

            Another problem with the religion is that it says that everyone should be equal. Everyone should have equal amount of money, poverty, and power. For me personally it sounds as Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto. In it we saw a world without leaders, religion. A world in which everything is equal and everyone is equal; a world in which everyone has equal amount of money, poverty, and power. If so, then why Marx’s communism did not flourish but die? Again the answer is the human nature; the will to power. In such a world there is no place for power, and that is against human nature. So once more the Nietzsche’s master – slave morality took place.

            All in all, Nietzsche’s master – slave morality, surrounds us. We can see it every where in our daily life. We can see it in the government, in the religion, in the industry, in the business. It sounds terrible, and we must be terrified, but it is the truth. We are slaves of Nietzsche’s master – slave morality. We can find it even in our work place. The facts speak for themselves. The Nietzsche’s master – slave morality is alive more than ever. And we all are slaves of it.

~ by vorador on April 30, 2007.