Unit 10: Prescribed texts (open-book Paper 2)
Topic 10.5: On the Genealogy of Morality — Nietzsche Questions
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Nietzsche's yardstick for judging a value is whether it:
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The 'will to nothingness' means that the human will would rather:
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True or false? Nietzsche's genealogy steps OUTSIDE morality to ask where our sense of good came from.
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Nietzsche's central claim about these two codes is that:
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Fill the gap: slave morality re-labels weakness as virtue — being unable to take revenge becomes ______.
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Nietzsche's 'twist' about bad conscience is that turning inward also:
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Fill the gap: in old German the word for 'guilt' (*Schuld*) is the same as the word for ______.
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Nietzsche's 'revaluation of values' calls for us to:
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Fill the gap: Nietzsche calls the ascetic ideal a 'will to ______' — the will would rather aim at self-denial than have nothing to aim at.
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A 'life-denying' value, for Nietzsche, is one that:
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The 'genetic fallacy' Nietzsche is careful to avoid is:
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The 'revaluation' in slave morality means that:
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Nietzsche's genealogy of morality mainly asks:
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Fill the gap: the noble says 'I am good' first; the person of ressentiment needs an ______ first — 'I am good because I'm not THEM'.
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In the early debt relationship, an unpaid debt could be settled by:
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A value driven by ressentiment, Nietzsche says, always:
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Nietzsche argues that the feeling of guilt originally grew out of:
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Why does Nietzsche trace a value back to its origin?
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In master morality, the opposite of 'good' is:
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