Master and Slave Moralities | Friedrich Nietzsche | *Philosophers, Explained* by Professor Stephen Hicks

Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great?

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher. He wrote mostly in an aphoristic style and is most known for his thoughts on the Ubermensch, the Will to Power, ressentiment, and the death of God. In this episode, Dr. Hicks discusses the First Essay in Nietzsche’s 1887 On the Genealogy of Morals, focusing on the nature of good and evil and master and slave moralities.

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Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.

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