Nietzsche's master-slave morality describes how moral norms have shifted through the ages, from pre-Scocratic times to the modern age founded on Christian and Jewish beliefs. During pre-Socratic times, value was dominated and enacted by the ruling class, who viewed themselves and what they did as good. Value was defined in terms of good: what was good for the master class was good in itself. This notion of worth was conceived along the lines of nobility and purity, which included traits such as courage, beauty, strong will, and happiness. The masters said yes to existence and their values affirmed their belief system which, because of their position of control, created their elite disposition and influenced the moral norms of their time. Because the ruling class saw itself as good, it distinguished itself from weaker individuals, those who were not in power, as evil. The weakest individuals, called plebeians in pre-Socratic times, according to the masterclass, were weaker for various reasons. Whether it is due to their unhappiness, victimization of unfortunate circumstances, weakness of will or lack of courage, pride or a combination of any of these despicable or non-virtuous values. According to the masterclass, adhering to these weak values triggered a form of fear in the plebeian, which created a lack of self-esteem and a lack of freedom or self-awareness, considered slavery. According to Nietzsche, a slave revolt in morality begins when the oppressed or slaves begin to reevaluate the values of the oppressors or the ruling class. In the historical process of the West, the revaluation of morality began through the Jews, who harbored resentment towards their oppressors. Resentment referring to f...... middle of paper ...... is an account of the birth of self-awareness through intersubjectivity or integration into culture. It is a dialectical interpretation that acts, for Hegel, as a form of perceiving the way in which the self comes to know itself through the other and through historical processes. The master/slave dialectic is one of the first explanations of intersubjectivity and also a lack of intersubjectivity because it is not based on equal recognition. Self-consciousness, for Hegel, is achieved only through recognition by an independent other self. The human world is a world based on recognition and human beings have within themselves the desire for recognition from other human beings. Hegel proposes that one cannot become a self-conscious individual without seeing oneself in another and that each individual bases their existence on a world founded on recognition.
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