1. Discuss the emergence of guilt in light of Nietzsche's analysis in the genealogy. You are expected to trace the sequence Nietzsche presents in describing the descent towards guilt.
? Creditor and debtor relationship
"I have already let it out: in the contractual relationship between creditor and debtor, which is as old as the very conception of a ?legal subject' and itself refers back to the basic forms of buying, selling, bartering, trade and traffic." (p.43 2nd essay) see pg 49 for more quotes
"Through punishment of the debtor, the creditor takes part in the rights of the masters: at least he, too, shares the elevated feeling of despising and maltreating someone as an ?inferior' ? or at least, when the actual power of punishment, of exacting punishment, is already transferred to the ?authorities', of seeing the debtor despised and maltreated." (p. 44-45 2nd essay)
? We are being watched and judged constantly, we watch ourselves to make sure we are acting properly
? Our absence of joy is because we feel guilt from wrong doings and if plagues us
? In ancient times, they would concede to punishment and it would be over
These Germans made a memory for themselves with dreadful methods, in order to master their basic plebeian instincts and the brutal crudeness of the same: think of old German punishments such as stoning (- even the legend drops the millstone on a guilty person's head)?..With the aid of such images and procedures, man was eventually able to retain five or six ?I-don't-want-to's' in his memory, in connection with which a promise has been made, in order to enjoy the advantages of society ? and the ...