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On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about interpretation and the history of ethics which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both. This is the most sustained of Nietzsche’s later works and offers one of the fullest expressions of his characteristic concerns. The introduction places his ideas within the cultural context of his own time and stresses the relevance of his work for a contemporary audience…. More >>
Genealogy of Morals – This work is most apparent when read as a sequel to Beyond Good & Evil. I suggest starting here. The prose is easier than BG & E, which is trying to polemic in essay form. However, it remains a voice in your head, you consipring, lure you into understanding. Here, the prose of BG & E becomes apparent.
Ecce Homo – This seems a very pretentious. It is not. He leaves almost modestly here. This also cleans the air of everything that is rotten from what has been said about it. And “as if he had guessed what evil things they have to say about it.
Especially if this is his first book on Nietzsche, I think that instead of buying this, buying the basic writings of Nietzsche , which contains these two books as well as the other three (Beyond Good & Evil, which is a better place to start in any event, the birth of tragedy, and the Case of Wagner), the translator himself, and only costs a few dollars more now that he’s in paperback.
Rating: 4 / 5
After reading most of the works of Nietzsche in German annoyance (my mother tongue) and English, I must say that if one is unable to read one of the four great masters of German (Goethe, Heine, Kafka) Walter Kaufman translations are the only works that come closest to the style and intentions that Nietzsche (supposedly) had. in others, especially in the translations first may Wittness “excess nietzschification ‘that puts supposed intent or Nietzschean thought and language works so bias and content. Kaufman, who is the first philosopher and, second, a translator fall into this trap. can only be recommended enthusiastically.
Rating: 5 / 5
Without doubt, the most penetrating and philosophical work of Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals “is a terrible indictment of science, Judeo-Christian morality and modern Western values like liberalism, socialism and feminism. It identifies these phenomena with the reagents, ideal self-preservation “ascetic” – an oppressive “will to truth” – which aims to limit and deny life. On the contrary, Nietzsche advocates, art and culture as an antidote samples and artist “Diyonisan tragic” that affirm and celebrate life. – Even an advanced text for deconstruction and poststructuralism, in its analysis and interpretation of historicism.
Rating: 5 / 5
Sequel Complex Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil is a remarkable achievement of philosophy, philology and history. It laid the groundwork for the 20th century thinkers like Foucault and Deleuze, but never reach the complexity of Nietzsche and the moral improvement. In the preface of the book, Nietzsche proposes the project to investigate the origin of morality that humans are unknown to themselves. He is ultimately interested in the development of moral prejudices, and the value of morality itself. He criticized man in his acceptance of moral principles, and writes: “We need a critique of moral values, the value of these values, you must first be questioned, and this requires a knowledge of the condition and the circumstances under have grown, according to which they have evolved and changed “(456).
Nietzsche’s essay begins (right and wrong, good and bad) with a philological examination of words and roots of words related to good and evil, and demarcation of their evolution. He makes a connection between the creations of words and puts them in historical context of the rulers and nobility. Linguistically, Nietzsche discovered that the “good” is related to the nobility. He writes: “The world ‘noble,’` noble ‘in the social sense, is the basic concept that “good” in the sense of “with aristocratic soul,’` noble ‘ “(464). Alternatively, the words associated with “bad” have always been linked to the plain ‘,’ easy ‘and’ low. “Thus, morality as a human construction is an extension of power, wealth and civilization. The origin of evil is intertwined with the priestly aristocracy. />
In the case of this treaty, Nietzsche speaks of civilizations “man tame the animal. Here he writes:” Assuming that what is in each case as the truth ‘is true, and the meaning of the whole culture is the reduction of the beast of prey `man ‘of a domestic animal and civilized, a pet, then undoubtedly have to consider all those instincts of reaction and resentment through the help of the races and their ideals confused and finally overthrown as the actual instruments of culture “(478). Nietzsche insists that Europe is to dominate man is an enormous danger for which we are made to be tired of our own being. For Nietzsche, fatigue and fear of men, forced us to lose our love for him to give back to our instinct to reject the claim.
Rating: 5 / 5
Nietzsche gives a historical overview of how morality has developed in the world. Unlike many others, Nietzsche takes a historical approach to the development of morality and into the etymology of ancient languages. The “good / bad / good vs. evil” distinction is very important to obtain an understanding of how the concepts of guilt, conscience, and the ascetic ideal. Along with Beyond Good and Evil, this book should be one of the first by Nietzsche, you must read in my opinion, to have a good understanding of Nietzsche’s thought. The analysis of Christianity too!
Rating: 5 / 5