Description
Your written essays on question one should be approximately 1000 – 1250 words (4-5 pages double-spaced). Answers must be submitted as a Word doc attachment to our class Canvas site no later than 10 am on Wednesday, May 1, 2019. Your grades will be based on how thoroughly, analytically and creatively you argue an answer, and how well you use evidence from a broad range of theorists to support your claims. (Remember that this exam concentrates on our readings, discussions, and commentaries on Wollstonecraft, Marx, Mill, Beauvoir, Nietzsche, Foucault, Jameson & Baudrillard, Arendt, Berry, Dobson and Ahmed – but you are free to use theorists from the first half of the course as well.)
Prompt
Question 1: Take-home essay
Many of the most powerful political movements of the last century – such as for African-American and women’s civil rights, against genocide and apartheid – have been rooted in claims of morality and universal humanity. Yet Nietzsche has claimed we are stuck merely in “slave morality,” while others assert that the Enlightenment project rationalizing universal moral norms has failed. As we have moved forward into the 21st century, is it even possible for us to make any sort of moral and political claim condemning “crimes against humanity,” genocide, torture, human trafficking, environmental destruction, or other violations of “universal human rights?” Explain why or why not. If not – is politics and political life even possible, and how? And if yes – then how and on what basis?
Explanation & Answer
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Running head: SLAVE MORALITY ON PROMOTING SOCIAL JUSTICE
Slave Morality on Promoting Social Justice
Student’s Name
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SLAVE MORALITY ON PROMOTING SOCIAL JUSTICE
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Slave Morality on Promoting Social Justice
One of the clearest characteristics of most movements focused on achieving social
change has always been the effort to move towards a socialist community, in which everyone
enjoys equal rights and has an equal form of lifestyle. Consequently, this has made subjects such
as poverty and lack of access to various facilities such as healthcare and proper sanitation some
of the primary roles of any government. Every leader seeking election highlights his commitment
to improving welfare in society, and people often give their votes to the candidates on account of
an improvement in the lifestyle of the weaker members of society, in an effort to achieve parity
with the more affluent citizens. However, it is always a difficult task to achieve any sort of
equality from this perspective, since the capitalist society will always have different social
classes, inclusive of the wealthy, and people of low income. However, this mentality of
improving the lives of others and a focus on the poor members of society has been effective in
guaranteeing successful resolution of otherwise precarious situations.
According to Friedrich Nietzsche, the slave morality has been one of the most consistent
persistent basis of moral values, and seeks to glorify the qualities associated with poverty, in an
effort to limit the potential consequences of uncontrolled power of the few wealthy members of
society (Elgat, 2017). Notably, ...
