Discussion Questions for
Friedrich Nietzsche's Ideas about Morality

(as expressed in his book The Antichrist)

 

1. Please summarize, as best you can in your own words, what you understand Nietzsche to mean by the “master” morality.
   
   
2. Please summarize, as best you can in your own words, what you understand Nietzsche to mean by normal, conventional morality, i.e., the morality he calls “slave” morality.
   
   
3. Just making a guess, what do you think Nietzsche’s attitude toward the idea of Human Rights and the movement to legitimize and enforce human rights norms would be? Please explain.