Friedrich Nietzsche | Genealogy of Morals (part 3) | Existentialist Philosophy & Literature

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We continue our study of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, focusing now on the third essay: "What is the Meaning of Ascetic Ideals"
This section's title asks a question to which Nietzsche will provide several answers in the course of carrying his Genealogy down to the present day. We start off with some material later in the essay to frame the topics earlier on in the third essay, and then shift to discussing various types of person and the asceticism corresponding to those types: artist, philosopher, priest.
How do ascetic ideals develop and then take hold within societies and cultures, eventually displacing or suppressing the original morality of the noble, warrior type? Ideals of purity, opposed to contamination or to uncleanness are part of the picture, as are the development - or reinterpretation and elaboration - of religious systems.
Key ideals of philosophy can be understood as expressions of an originally priestly, ascetic ideal - impersonality, universality, objectivity, and detachment.
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