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On the Slave mentality of St Anthony.
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On the Slave mentality of St Anthony. By Philip F. Markwick. In 1887 Nietzsche publishes The Genealogy of Morality in which he formulates his notion of the 'Slave Ethic(s)' and the 'Slave Mentality'. A phenomenon that is the central rift in the history of 'Moral feeling', between those that accept moral codes that are handed to them and those who do not. Nietzsche saw it that those who obey 'moral codes' for their own protection, such as the rules of Christianity or Judaism, were simply deluding themselves under a false and misleading notion of goodness. In contrast to those who had no moral codes other than those that they have created for themselves. These groups have a familiar symbolic relationship, that of the 'Master' and the 'Slave'. In Nietzsche's view the slave mentality deepens itself over the millennia in ever more implacable resistance to the master, this resistance will never overcome the...
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