On the Genealogy of Morals, A Polemical Tract by Fredrich Nietzsche: Week 5, Post 3-

The Article written by Fredrich Nietzsche starts out in the prologue in paragraph one speaking about the fact that we do not bother living life to the fullest and learn about how to progress ourselves to the fullest extent. He writes about the fact that we are too preoccupied by other things such as earning a living and getting material objects. We miss the boat on the most important parts of life and do not focus our attention enough of discovering the wonders of life. The more time that goes by and we do not try to figure out what it is we are and what it is we are doing here, the less time we have left to use for those extremely important purposes. More so important then punching the clock and trying to attain a goal that has almost no value compared to the value that comes when we figure out what we are and what our purpose here is.
In this article Nietzsche writes about what conditions man invented for himself; the values of good and evil. This led Nietzsche into a whole slew of new ideas that tapered off into a whole new field of thought and study for him to figure out: The genealogy of morals. Questions arose like; what value do these morals hold? Have they hindered or fostered human well-being up to now? Are they a sign of some emergency, of impoverishment, of an atrophying life? Or is it the other way around? Do they indicate fullness, power, a will for living, courage, confidence, his future? After this he came upon all sorts of answers that distinguished themselves between things like ages, peoples, and different ranks of individuals. He kept refining the answer to these problems and out of these answers came new questions, investigations, assumptions, probabilities. This is how we are to find out how morals entered the world. Maybe it has nothing to do with divinity. Maybe it has everything to do with maintaining some sort of order. Maybe it has a basis in survival. Possibly it is something that has just sort of evolved over the years as a sort of law or guide to live by because more often times they are right for the sake of surviving life in the best possible way.