- Hatred or envy harbored by the ruled or the weak against the ruler or the strong. (Daijirin, 3rd ed.)
Nobuaki Ishikawa
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A central concept in Nietzsche’s Christian criticism, meaning “resentment” or “envy”.
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In “Moral Genealogy” (1887), Nietzsche traced the origins of Christianity to the Jews’ lusantiman against the Romans, and the essence of Christianity to a distorted value evaluation born of lusantiman.
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The Jews, the ruled class, harbored resentment and envy toward the Romans, the ruling class, for their strength, active enjoyment of life, and self-affirming nature, and out of this resentment they created a refracted value evaluation: the strong are “bad” and I, the not-strong, am “good”.
- Self-affirmation
- Monarchical morality and slave morality
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This shift in values became even more refractory, giving rise to a value evaluation, represented by the phrase “Blessed are the poor, for they shall be blessed,” in which weakness, denial of desire, and failure to enjoy real life are “good,” ultimately leading to the Christian idea of original sin, asceticism, and nepotism, Nietzsche believed. Nietzsche believed that this led to the Christian idea of original sin, asceticism, and nepotism.
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(Nobuaki Ishikawa, Lecturer at Kyoto Seika University / 2007)
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Source: Chiezo, published by Asahi Shimbun Publishing Co.
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