The Genealogy of Morals

by Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche's fierce polemic tracing where our ideas of good and evil actually came from.

At a glance In three linked essays he dissects guilt, conscience, and the ascetic ideal, overturning… Friedrich Nietzsche called this book a polemic, and it reads like one: three sustained… Instead he asks the disturbing question of where they came from, and whose interests… What it's about In three connected essays, Nietzsche investigates the origins of moral…

In three connected essays, Nietzsche investigates the origins of moral concepts. He contrasts two ways of valuing rooted in different historical conditions, traces the emergence of guilt and bad conscience from the…