Z genealogii moralności

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Z genealogii moralności

1887 · autorstwa: Friedrich Nietzsche

Moralność panów i niewolników, wina i ideały ascetyczne.

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Nietzsche wrote the book in a few weeks in the summer of 1887 and published it as “a polemic” supplementing Beyond Good and Evil. Unlike his collections of aphorisms, it consists of three continuous essays. The first contrasts the aristocratic pair “good and bad” with “good and evil”, born of the ressentiment of the oppressed. The second traces conscience and guilt back to the relationship between creditor and debtor and to the turning inward of instincts. The third asks what ascetic ideals mean for artists, priests, philosophers and scientists, and concludes that humans would rather will nothingness than not will at all. It is often seen as Nietzsche’s most coherent book, and Foucault’s genealogical method drew on it.