Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Ressentiment, Legislators, Commanders
In I, 13 of the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche argues that the concept of a subject that abstracts from its degree of strength is a product of Ressentiment. Now, to legislate is to conceive a set of entities as independent of their differences in strength. In contrast, a military organization is constituted by a hierarchy based on and codifying the relative strengths of its members. Accordingly, that passage in GM seems to require a reconsideration of the conflation, in Beyond Good and Evil #211, of "legislators" and "commanders".
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