This paper discusses the
question of where our idea of
morality comes from. Why do we classify actions as good and bad? It
is an age old
question for philosophers. Here, Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche, specifically, are examined. Kant believes good and evil originated from a sense of duty in humans, and explains this with his "Categorical Imperative". The paper shows that Nietzsche, studying the history of the words "good" and "evil" themselves, denies that we should even be considering our
morality and ethics in these terms at all.