Positivity!

Recently, reading "The Genealogy of Morals" made me realize something that, now that I think about it, seems so central to Nietzsche's philosophy; for Nietzsche positivity is not only about acting and being oneself, one must also be positive in thought. In the preface he mentions something he disagrees with and then writes that it is of no use to refute his opponent, but merely to replace it as a positive thinker would, but I also realized that the replacement itself is a positive one. Darwinian thinkers view the origin of morality as a distinction that has been coined by those who an action is in favor of or against in a period preceding the forgetting of that origin and these values of good and evil becoming what they are now, making the origin of morality merely accidental, something that no one intended and that has originated merely as a way for those benefited or harmed by another's action to praise and blame.

Nietzsche on the other hand, being positive in thought, views the origin of morality and the words 'good' and 'bad' as a way that aristocrats and nobles has used to indicate their superiority; thus replacing a theory that gives credit to forgetfulness and accident to one which claims that morality was rather something originated by strong people. Not to condemn or praise another, for that would be too negative, Nietzsche preferred that morality be a product of a more positive endeavor, that of pride and action.

Nietzsche then says that morality was transformed and has become a way to condemn and only conditionally praise those abiding by its rules. He criticizes the new form morality has taken - which he calls slave morality in most of his works - as negative, since it calls this evil and otherwise is good (one need only think of the ten commandments starting with "Thou Shall not.") On the other hand, the morality he describes as master morality originated merely to praise those who are being themselves, and precisely for that reason, it condemns out of contempt for that which is opposed to the good.