Reading/Discussion Prompts
Jan 27
Questions du Jour:
Who was your worst enemy in elementary school?
Where does your name come from?
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Why has Nietzsche written this work?
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Where does Nietzsche begin in determining
the foundation or origin of morals? What is his technique?
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What makes a person good?
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Why do we need enemies?
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How does Miltonian evil compare with
Nietzsche’s evil?
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According to Nietzsche, is God good? Evil?
Bad?
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What is the connection between goodness and
1) strength, 2) the other.
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How does he define and use each of the
following terms for his genealogy: pity, evil, good, value,
virtue, ressentiment, justice, strength, weakness, moral,
culture, slave, nobility, Jesus, priesthood, and barbaric.
Jan 31
Question du Jour:
What was your worst punishment?
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What polarities/dualities does Nietzsche
bring to the discussion and how does he use them?
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How is his notion of polarity itself a
concept of morality?
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How do memory and morality relate to one
another? What does their synergy create?
- What is the a) origin, b) purpose, c) form of punishment and
suffering found in moral systems?
- Where does bad conscience originate?
- What does all of this have to do with morality? Why is
Nietzsche writing this series of essays?
- What does the Christian model reveal about the nature of
morality?
Feb 3
Question du Jour:
What personal luxury would you have a hard time renouncing?
- Continue to identify polarities and their purposes.
- What is the connection between ressentiment, bad conscience,
and asceticism?
- Is asceticism required in order to have morality?
- Who is the ascetic priest? What is his task/duty/job?
- What is the greatest opponent to asceticism?
- What is a will to nothingness?
- Read this article
Feb 7
Question du Jour:
- Bring your contemporary application of Nietzsche to class.
- What loose ends do we need to tie up?
- Bring your own interpretive questions for discussion.
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