Explain Nietzsche’s distinction between the noble (good vs. bad) morality and the slave (good vs. evil) morality.

Formatting: All exercises, drafts, and final essays should be formatted according to: MLA, Chicago, Harvard or MHRA, style guidelines. The preferred citation style is MHRA Assignments

The prompts below are possible places to start for Paper #2. They are ideas that will help you get started. You may choose one, connect two of them, or discard them all and employ one of the argumentative styles identified in the syllabus.
Prompt: If evil is inevitable result of evolution by natural selection in the human species how did Darwin challenge (or reconfigure) the Christian problem of evil?
Prompt: How has evil been recast and naturalised by neo-Darwinian evolution?
Prompt: Analyse Spencer’s conception of evil and critically assess it.
Prompt: Explain Nietzsche’s distinction between the noble (good vs. bad) morality and the slave (good vs. evil) morality
Prompt: What motivates the slaves’ invention of the idea of responsible evil? And what are the consequences of the slaves’ creation?
Prompt: How has the problem of evil been suffused with male interests and conditioned by masculine experience? Discuss in relation to Noddings.
Prompt: How can evil be understood as that which is deemed ‘unnatural’?
You should demonstrate close engagement with one or more of the texts we have read so far, evaluating their claims and arguments they put forward. You will likely need to focus on a few significant passages, but remember to efficiently contextualise those passages within the essay(s) as a whole. You should argue for a clear thesis (and remember: what the paper argues for emerges in relation to what the paper argues with or against). Evidence from the text is important!
Remember: No essay is perfect. The goal for these response papers is to evaluate, discuss or critically engage with some aspect of the authors’ ideas. Evaluation is often obscured by excessive praise or spit for the authors. Thus, avoid panegyric, and avoid adulation. In addition, you need not resolve every ambiguity or paradox in the texts you read. In fact, sometimes identifying a lingering ambiguity in the text can strengthen your own argument.

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