Friedrich Nietzsche:
“The Key to Overcoming Nihilism:” Slave Morale “.-
“Have you ever wondered sufficiently how expensive the establishment of every ideal has been made to pay on earth? How much reality had to be always slandered and misunderstood for it, how much lie, sanctified, how much conscience disturbed? … We modern men, we are the heirs of the vivisection of conscience, and of the torture “. (Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals).
The slave is both the shepherd and the flock. According to Nietzsche, it reveals the lack of confidence in the individual to singularize himself, to create his own vision of the world and to affirm the difference. Because of the fear of individuation, the will of the slave manipulates the conscience of the Other. It acts out of resentment in the face of the desire for differentiation, and the morality it employs rests precisely on its specific origin. The will of the slave coined a moral that responds to his own shortcomings in acting, differentiate and recreate the world originally. In the words of Nietzsche: “The morality of the slave is that which says no, already in advance, to an Out, to an Other, to a Non-Self” (IBD, Genealogy of Morality).

Of all the devices of power of the morality of the slave the bad conscience is the most effective (“the greatest, the most sinister ailment, a disease from which humanity has not been cured until today, the suffering of man by man, by itself, the result of a violent separation of its animal past, the result of a leap and a fall, the result of a declaration of war against the old instincts in which until that moment its strength, pleasure and fecundity rested ” IBD Nietzsche: The Genealogy of Morals).

The act that founds the triumph of slave morality is the formation of bad conscience in the Other. It is the foundational spring of all integration based on the morality of the slave, whose file seeks to institute a self-repressive subjectivity in the Other in order to keep it under the aegis of the pastor. By internalizing the debt as guilt becomes unpayable. In Christian Judeo morality the pastor introjects the pain in the Other and makes the debtor a perpetual creditor of himself (or the shepherd that he harbours in himself). The bad conscience, interpreted as the device of introjected debt that truncates any will of individuation, thus universalizes the morality of the slave. Once introjected the immeasurable guilt, it is stuck in the interior (“The entire inner world, originally thin, as enclosed between two skins, was separating and growing … the relief of man out was being inhibited: this is the origin of the bad conscience “(IBD Nietzsche: The Genealogy of Morals).

The overcoming of nihilism requires transfiguring the negative energy of the ascetic ideal of the slave into creative energy. The Will to Power, understood in its positive meaning as the power to create and transfigure a symbolic order must operate by reversing the projective mechanism of the will of the slave. Just as the will of the slave in his moment neutralizes the free will, reverting the active forces against themselves (bad conscience as introjection, clogging of the creative energies in the subject); in the same way, the will to power must interpellate to revert the inhibitory energies of the priest-priest-manipulator of consciences. It is not about dissolving the energy that inhabits the will of the slave, but actively turning it against the shepherd himself who feeds himself.

Source: Hopenhayn, Martin. After Nihilism (Cap II, ap IV). Barcelona. Andres Bello. 1997

Link: http://www.nietzscheana.com.ar/tratado_segundo.htm

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