The nexus linking resentment to this new framework does not follow the logic of means/end rationality, but rather the more archaic pattern of emotional self-interpretation. The slaves adopt the scheme of values organized around good and evil because doing so enables them to make sense of their experience of the world, which is mediated by sentiments of hatred and resentment. If the masters are evil, then hatred of them becomes a response that is merited by its object, and the latent tensions in the worldview of the slaves are thereby resolved. This way of understanding the causal role of resentment in the slave revolt — the expressive interpretation, as I shall call it — has several immediate advantages. For one thing, it makes very good sense of some of the more prominent strands in Nietzsche's reflections about the slave revolt. Nietzsche emphasizes repeatedly, for instance, that the negative pole is basic in the morality of good and evil, and he contrasts the resulting...
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