On the genealogy of morality
a polemic
by Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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On the genealogy of morality
2007, Cambridge University Press
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The Genealogy of Morals
April 23, 2003, Dover Publications
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in English
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On the genealogy of morals: a polemic : by way of clarification and supplement to my last book, Beyond good and evil
1996, Oxford University Press
in English
0192831372 9780192831378
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On the genealogy of morals
1989, Vintage Books
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Includes bibliographical references (p. xxv-xxxviii) and index.
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