What does Nietzsche say about justice?

If I am robbed, it is justice, and not myself, that has been harmed, and so justice must claim revenge. Thus, Nietzsche suggests, the concept of justice can only exist in a society that has established laws that can be transgressed: there is no such thing as “justice in itself.”

What does Nietzsche say about equality?

(1)Nietzsche is not opposed to equality per se: he is willing to admit that equality can sometimes be a useful value. 14 He is opposed to equality only when it is put forward as the fundamental value. (2)Nietzsche is an esoteric moralist: he is not demanding (or even suggesting) that everyone should read his writings.

Is Nietzsche a hard determinist?

True, Nietzsche is an enthusiastic advocate of the scientific method (during some periods of his career, at least). But it does not follow that he is a determinist. Indeed, he has some incisive skeptical comments on the concept of causality (and hence determinism).

Why was Nietzsche against punishment by the law?

For this reason, human law is misguided because it reinforces the unnatural idea of Equality. As evidence, he noted that human law often punishes people for no good reason — e.g. for victimless crimes, based only on local moral customs. Such treatment, claimed Nietzsche, is cruelty. So, Nietzsche was against punishment by the law.

What is Nietzsche’s concept of freedom of will?

For Nietzsche, the freely acting human is a theoretical construct that makes punishment comprehensible to a creature driven by drives and instincts and automated determinations of its behavior; freedom of the will appears ‘natural’ and ‘unavoidable’—like a good theoretical or ideological construct or posit should.

What is Nietzsche’s concept of contract?

Here, Nietzsche sets out his view of how the concept of a contract creates persons, how the ethical subject is not found but made. For Nietzsche, the law, a set of human practices, ‘creates’ its subjects by acting upon humans to make them into beings capable of obeying the law.

What does Nietzsche mean by debtor-creditor relationship?

In The Genealogy of Morals Nietzsche suggests the debtor-creditor relationship—a legal relationship, an economic one, made formal and enforceable—is responsible for “instilling memory in humanity.”