ople, eventually became an inherited dogma. All of a sudden the concern of one became misconstrued as the will of God. The will of God could also be called good. The philosopher Hegel had this to say about good in his book, Philosophy of Right:“The good is in principle the essence of the will in its substantiality and universality, i.e. of the will in its truth, and therefore exists simply and solely in thinking and by means of thinking. Hence such as “man cannot know the truth but has to do only with phenomena,” or “Thinking injures the good will” are dogmas depriving mind not only of intellectual but also of all ethical worth and dignity” (Hegel 48)By stating this, Hegel shows the importance of a man deciding his own morals. By taking away a man’s right to arrive upon his morals, you are taking away from the true essence of morality and you are not allowing the mind to think in a way which is both natural and necessary. Nietzsche also touches on inherited morality rather well saying:Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.(Daybreak 19)Just as Hegel had expressed, Nietzsche notices the problem with inherited morals. Without there being much room for opposition, the inherited morals assume prevalence and win moral trial after trial by default. One is afraid to question what is established due to the fact that the established has gone unchallenged. So if a custom may not be such a good custom, it is still practiced due to everyone’s assuming that it is truly good.Religion a...
