Category: Philosophy & Ethics
In 1887, with the view of amplifying and completing certain new doctrines which he had merely sketched in _Beyond Good and Evil_ (see especially aphorism 260), Nietzsche published _The Genealogy of Morals_. This work is perhaps the least aphoristic, in form, of all Nietzsche's...
In 1887, with the view of amplifying and completing certain new doctrines which he had merely sketched in _Beyond Good and Evil_ (see especially aphorism 260), Nietzsche publish...
2. Part 2Now the first argument that comes ready to my hand is that the real homestead of the concept "good" is sought and located in the wrong place: the judgment "good" did not origina...
3. Part 3When the aristocratic morality goes astray and commits sacrilege on reality, this is limited to that particular sphere with which it is _not_ sufficiently acquainted--a sphere,...
4. Part 4In the faith in what? In the love for what? In the hope of what? These weaklings!--they also, forsooth, wish to be the strong some time; there is no doubt about it, some time _t...
5. Part 5His conscience?--One apprehends at once that the idea "conscience," which is here seen in its supreme manifestation, supreme in fact to almost the point of strangeness, should a...
6. Part 6The feeling of "ought," of personal obligation (to take up again the train of our inquiry), has had, as we saw, its origin in the oldest and most original personal relationship...
7. Part 7To return to our subject, namely _punishment_, we must make consequently a double distinction: first, the relatively permanent _element_, the custom, the act, the "drama," a cer...
8. Part 8Undoubtedly the bad conscience is an illness, but an illness like pregnancy is an illness. If we search out the conditions under which this illness reaches its most terrible and...
9. Part 9At this point it is impossible to beg the further question of what he really had to do with that manly (ah, so unmanly) country bumpkin, that poor devil and natural, Parsifal, w...
10. Part 10These philosophers, you see, are by no means uncorrupted witnesses and judges of the _value_ of the ascetic ideal. They think _of themselves_ --what is the "saint" to them? They...
11. Part 11Granted that such an incarnate will for contradiction and unnaturalness is induced to _philosophise_; on what will it vent its pet caprice? On that which has been felt with the...
12. Part 12I am proceeding, as you see, in this essay, from an hypothesis which, as far as such readers as I want are concerned, does not require to be proved; the hypothesis that "sinfuln...
13. Part 13The dictates of fairness, however, require that we should all the more emphasise the fact that this remedy is applied with _a good conscience_, that the ascetic priest has presc...
14. Part 14And now look at the other side, at those rare cases, of which I spoke, the most supreme idealists to be found nowadays among philosophers and scholars. Have we, perchance, found...
15. Part 15_What_, I put the question with all strictness, has really _triumphed_ over the Christian God? The answer stands in my _Joyful Wisdom_, Aph. 357: "the Christian morality itself,...
16. Part 16The fate now overhanging Europe is simply this: that it is exactly her strongest sons that come rarely and late to the spring-time of their existence; that, as a rule, when they...