Nietsche

Nietsche Nietzsche believes the origins of morals coincide with "how responsibility originated"(pg147) with the breeding of "an animal with the right to make promises" (pg 145) and progressed to the manipulation of one group of humanity by another in order to implement morals. It is an attempt to develop an explanation for the existence of ethics and morals. For him, morality and responsibility could only come to exist by these means. In the earlier part of his essay, he speaks of forgetfulness and how it is a “positive faculty of repression” (pg 146) and portrays the inability to forget to a type of mental indigestion. If it were not for forgetfulness then men could not cope with remembering all of the events of their life. However, Nietzsche does believe that memory can be useful in the case of promises because it is the will of the individual that retains the memory. In order for the individual to maintain his promise and nietzsche, individual, responsibility, promises, promise, pg, therefore, right, morals, morality, man, make, future, through, sovereign, order, ordain, memory, means, labor, instinct, however, forgetfulness, becomes, because, 145, useful, undertake, type, true, termed, statement, speaks, sophisticated, significance