Friedrich Nietzsche was perhaps one of the most controversial existential philosophers who had ever lived. ... Using examples of this film, I will attempt to examine Nietzsche’s concepts of ‘slave’ and ‘master’ psychology.
To understand the concept of ‘slave’ and ‘master’ morality, Nietzsche insists that we must first understand the origin of morality. He writes, “morality itself, however, has been regarded as something “given”. (Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil 190) Nietzsche insists that in fact morality is not a “given” because it is not timeless as nothing in our world is. ... However, Nietzsche argues that we are in fact not intrinsically special, that instead we exist in only one single reality. ... Nietzsche writes, “life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation.” (Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil 192) It is here that Nietzsche introduces the ‘master’ and ‘slave’ psychologies. If Nietzsche is correct in stating that existence is merely the will-to-power, then there must be ‘masters’ and ‘slaves’ to fulfill his conclusion. ... (Caruana) Nietzsche writes, “…as long as mankind has existed, there have also been human herds (family alliances, communities, tribes, peoples, states, churches)…a great number who obey in proportion to the small number who command.” (Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil 191) Those who are commanded are the ‘slaves’, and those who command are the individuals he considers ‘masters’ or ‘nobles’.
An individual exhibiting ‘master’ psychology expresses himself with his physical body. The ‘master’ does not judge things based on his emotions, but based on his taste which could be either ‘good’ or ‘bad’, or in other words ‘noble’ or ‘despicable’ (Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil 193).
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