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How would you compare Zimbardo’s argument that situations cause people to act in bad ways in “What Makes Good People Do Bad Things?” to Nietzsche’s philosophical thoughts on morality in “Morality as Anti-Nature”? Cite Evidence.

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Answer: Zimbardo cited science, Nietzche’s cited passages from the Bible to define Christianity.

Step-by-step explanation:

Nietzsche’s philosophical thoughts was centered on morality, he argued that a moral code was not in our nature, which influenced Zimbardo’s argument is that we shouldn’t expect our decisions to be influenced by morality alone.

Nietzsche’s thoughts on morality were rooted in opposition to Christianity.

He started his argument by quoting a passage from the Bible, “If thy eye offend thee, pluck it out,” after which he labeled labeling the Christian idea as “stupidity” (Paragraph 1).

Nietzsche disagreement was that sensuality is in opposition to Christianity and that the church “always wanted the destruction of those who didn’t align with them ‘enemies’. ( immoralists and Antichristians )

(Paragraph 5), he also added that “Life h comes to an end where the ‘kingdom of God’ begins” (Paragraph 8).

In contrast, Zimbardo cited his argument on science and proposed that the electric shock experiment which was carried out by psychologist Stanley Milgram “provided a great deal of lessons about how situations tends foster evil” (Paragraph 5).

He also cited conclusions from a 1974 experiment by Harvard anthropologist John Watson, as well as his own simulated jail experiment, the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, to help support his argument.

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