ABSTRACT
In the first essay of On the Genealogy of Morality, "'Good and Evil,' 'Good and Bad,'" Friedrich Nietzsche compares different moralities, observing that they fall into two types. There are "noble moralities," according to which we see strong individuals with a "powerful physicality" and "blossoming, rich, even overflowing health" designate themselves as "good" in opposition to those they consider "bad." In the second essay, "'Guilt,' 'Bad Conscience,' and Related Matters," Nietzsche explains how the human moral conscience has developed in history and prehistory. The third essay, "What do Ascetic Ideals Mean?," discusses the conception of the good life as the monkish life of prayer, "poverty, humility, chastity," and self-denial: the "anti-sensual metaphysics of priests." In addition to the noble and inferior classes described, Nietzsche also introduces another group in his first essay: the priests. Nietzsche's discussion of the "ascetic ideal" in third essay portrays it as a culturally dominant conception of the ultimate "point and value of human life.".
