Gurney Halleck and Duncan Idaho review and analyze essay 3 of The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche. Who is this priestly ascetic class and have they psyoped us?

Listen to find out how Nietzsche's concept of "the will to power" relates to the ascendence of the ascetic ideal, why morality is relative (in Nietzsche's view), and if the sick and unfortunate should be separated from the healthy and happy.

In this episode, Gurney Halleck and Duncan Idaho discuss Essay II from the Geneology of Morals by Fredrich Nietzche. This essay troubled our hosts but ultimately provided a new and thought-provoking perspective on guilt, punishment, cruelty, and Christianity.

Listen to this episode to learn about the origin of punishment, the power of guilt, and how ancient man viewed cruelty compared to the modern day.

Gurney Halleck and Duncan Idaho set out to understand Old Terra's strange system of morality and how it originated. In this episode, we discuss the first essay of the Geneology of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche. Join us as we discuss how conceptions of good and evil arose in history and why their definitions have flipped. We also talk about the difference between priestly and knightly aristocracies. Can you guess which one has risen to prominence?