On the genealogy of morals : a polemic : by way of clarification and supplement to my last book, Beyond good and evil /
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 4entral values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English German |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
1996.
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| Series: | World's classics.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=12320 |
| Summary: | 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 4entral 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 ethicsand interpretation. Nietzsche questions moral certainties by showing that religion and science have no claim to absolute trut. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxvii, 170 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page xxxiv) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191561023 0191561029 0585111103 9780585111100 0192831372 019283617X |