Conduct and Judgement

No mere explanation or analysis of behavior, the evaluation of Conduct seems to be a universal human phenomenon. Any disagreement involved primarily concerns the source of judgement, with God, Feeling, and Reason being the most prominent candidates, discussed usually under the rubrics of 'Morality' or 'Ethics'. Perhaps the first truly critical eye turned on the topic was Nietzsche's, beginning with his insight that Moral judgement is itself a behavioral act. This helps lead him to the theory that all phenomena, including judgemental acts, are expressions of the 'Will to Power', which enables him to distinguish between judgements that are acts of self-mastery, and those that are attempts to control or even attack others, between 'Master Morality' and 'Slave Morality', respectively. The exposure of the various manifestations of the latter type, especially Christian morality as he understood it, is the main focus of his mature period. So, perhaps because of his untimely permanent debilitation, he never gets to a thorough discussion of how judgement is a mode of Self-Mastery. If he had, he might have come to the realization that the 'Good vs. Bad' dualism by which he all-too-briefly characterizes the processes of Self-Mastery, is itself a relic of the Slave Morality that he sought to overcome.