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The Genealogy Of Morals
The Genealogy of Morals investigates the historical and psychological formation of moral values. Its three essays trace noble and reactive valuation, the transformation of debt into guilt and bad conscience, and the power of ascetic ideals to give suffering a meaning. Horace B. Samuel’s translation presents Nietzsche’s genealogy as a critique of supposedly timeless moral concepts.
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The Genealogy of Morals is a major work of moral philosophy; genealogy; critique of morality.
The Genealogy of Morals investigates the historical and psychological formation of moral values. Its three essays trace noble and reactive valuation, the transformation of debt into guilt and bad conscience, and the power of ascetic ideals to give suffering a meaning. Horace B. Samuel’s translation presents Nietzsche’s genealogy as a critique of supposedly timeless moral concepts.
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