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On the Genealogy of Morals Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

On the Genealogy of Morals By Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


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This text is about the history of ethics and interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning.

On the Genealogy of Morals Summary

On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

'Reason, seriousness, mastery over the emotions, the whole murky affair which goes by the name of thought, all the privileges and showpieces of man: what a high price has been paid for them! How much blood and horror is at the bottom of all "good things!"' On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures. The result is a book which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both ethics and interpretation. Nietzsche questions moral certainties by showing that religion and science have no claim to absolute truth, before turning on his own arguments in order to call their very presuppositions into question. The Genealogy is the most sustained of Nietzsche's later works and offers one of the fullest expressions of his characteristic concerns.This edition places his ideas within the cultural context of his own time and stresses the relevance of his work for a contemporary audience.

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GOR001305969
9780192836175
019283617X
On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
1998-11-05
208
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