The discussion of cruelty and suffering is divided into six short sections that each address these topics from a different perspective. Cruelty can be practiced upon oneself or others, and may be psychological, physical or moral. This chapter reveals why Nietzsche's Genealogy makes cruelty inevitable. Contemporary articles related to these subjects are examined in this section and two works of literature are also introduced for psychological insights. The fourth chapter attempts to codify the vision of human greatness that emerges from Genealogy.
Greatness is related to justice and embodied by the just man.
I will examine a few formal elements in Nietzsche's conception of justice by briefly comparing Aristotle and Nietzsche. I will demonstrate how an examination of Nietzsche's view on justice reveals to us his conception of the best life and the highest type. Unfortunately, Nietzsche's conception of justice and the just man cannot be realized. I will go into the reasons for this in the fourth chapter. Since the possibility of human greatness revolves around justice, the incoherence of this concept in Genealogy leads us to ask whether other conceptions of justice may be offered that would rise to the occasion.