This is the preview for the partially examined life episode 262, part 2 on the third essay

of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals.

What is the meaning of ascetic ideals?

A seticism referring to self-denial, self-control, which Nietzsche has identified as a strong force

both for geniuses and leaders and crazy people, but also a guiding force in Judeo-Christian

Morality more broadly.

The section from the second half of the discussion I'm going to play for you here is right

at the beginning it starts right where we left off in part 1.

It acts as a nice recap of Nietzsche's ethics and points toward what his critique of science

is going to be.

Seth, you are asking a question about its relationship to pre-Christian morality.

It raises some questions about terminology and so forth for me and we can connect it.

So help me understand this.

There is an ascetic ideal in pre-Christian times, right?

Homer could not invent Achilles if he was Achilles, right?

So Homer had to create some kind of ascetic distance to become the poet that he was.

And the so-called master morality, I don't know if we still use that term, but that's

what it used to be called, right?

As Wes says, it's not the morality of Resulta Mont.

What he thinks is a more positive expression of will.

And then you get the Christian reversal of that with the morality of Resulta Mont, which

says not strictly speaking just the oppressors become the bad and the oppressed become

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