Nothing Nietzsche wrote is more stunning stylistically or as a human document. His interpretations are as fascinating as they are invaluable. It contains chapters on all the books he himself published. The second inquiry deals with guilt and the bad conscience the third with ascetic ideals-not only in religion but also in the academy.Įcce Homo, written in 1898 and first published posthumously in 1908, is Nietzsche’s review of his life and works. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994. The Genealogy of Morals consists of three essays exploring morality and its. Essays on Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals. Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann (translator), R.J. The first contrasts master morality and slave morality and indicates how the term “good” has widely different meanings in each. Greene 4 Harman and Michel Foucault will be helpful in understanding how genealogy works. On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) shows him using philsophy, psychology, and classical philology in an effort to give new direction to an ancient discipline.

The great philosopher’s major work on ethics, along with Ecce Homo, Nietzche’s remarkable review of his life and works.

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