In the fifth class session of our course, we will be finishing up working our way through the third treatise or essay of the Genealogy of Morals

On Saturday, we will hold our fifth online class session using Zoom. We will be recording the class session, and it will be uploaded for all of you students as an unlisted YouTube video embedded here in our class site (these won't be shared with non-students). After that, I will open the Week 5 Discussion Forum to student comments and questions, so that we can continue the discussion throughout the week

The specific topics we will be working through during this week's class session are:

• The ascetic ideal, life, and morbidity
• The mission of the ascetic priest
• Remedies and comforts provided to the herd
• Love of neighbor and will to power
• The role of emotions and affects
• Why psychologists should distrust themselves
• Whether free spirits are really free
• Science, scholarship, and ascetics
• The situation of nihilism
  

You will doubtless find it useful to read through at the very least the whole of the third treatise before our class session, perhaps more than once. You will also likely discover that rereading that portion of the text after participating in or watching the class session will help you develop a deeper understanding of Nietzsche' ideas.