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On the Genealogy of Morality

Friedrich Nietzsche

Must be read after The World as Will and Representation.

Published1887
Pages195
Open Library4.2 / 5
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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.…

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