The Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche · English
The Genealogy of Morals, published in 1887 with the subtitle A Polemic, develops ideas Friedrich Nietzsche had sketched in Beyond Good and Evil.
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The Genealogy of Morals, published in 1887 with the subtitle A Polemic, develops ideas Friedrich Nietzsche had sketched in Beyond Good and Evil. In three essays he traces the history of moral values: the first contrasts a noble morality of good and bad with a morality of good and evil born of the resentment of the weak; the second derives guilt and bad conscience from the relation of debtor and creditor and from instincts turned inward; the third asks what ascetic ideals mean. This edition is Horace B. Samuel's translation of 1913, followed by Peoples and Countries, a set of fragments translated by J. M. Kennedy.
The Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche · English
The Genealogy of Morals, published in 1887 with the subtitle A Polemic, develops ideas Friedrich Nietzsche had sketched in Beyond Good and Evil.
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In 1887, with the view of amplifying and completing certain new doctrines which he had merely sketched in _Beyond Good and Evil_ (see especially aphorism 260), Nietzsche published _The Genealogy of Morals_. This work is perhaps the least aphoristic, in form, of all Nietzsche's productions. For analytical power, more especially in those parts where Nietzsche examines the ascetic ideal, _The Genealogy of Morals_ is unequalled by any other of his works; and, in the light which it throws upon the at
Pagera Editor's Note
The Genealogy of Morals, published in 1887 with the subtitle A Polemic, develops ideas Friedrich Nietzsche had sketched in Beyond Good and Evil. In three essays he traces the history of moral values: the first contrasts a noble morality of good and bad with a morality of good and evil born of the resentment of the weak; the second derives guilt and bad conscience from the relation of debtor and creditor and from instincts turned inward; the third asks what ascetic ideals mean. This edition is Horace B. Samuel's translation of 1913, followed by Peoples and Countries, a set of fragments translated by J. M. Kennedy.
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