Nietzsche's on the Genealogy of Morality
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (US) |
| ISBN-13 | 9781139014977 |
| Open Library | OL21551592W |
| Total publications | 9 |
| Coverage period | 2011 - 2011 |
| Language | EN |
On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most influential, provocative, and challenging work of ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, fourteen leading philosophers offer fresh insights into many of the work's central questions: How did our dominant values originate and what functions do they really serve? What future does the concept of 'evil' have - and can it be revalued? What sorts of virtues and ideals does Nietzsche advocate, and are they necessarily incompatible with aspirations to democracy and a free society? What are the nature, role, and scope of genealogy in his critique of morality - and why doesn't his own evaluative standard receive a genealogical critique? Taken together, this superb collection illuminates what a post-Christian and indeed post-moral life might look like, and asks to what extent Nietzsche's Genealogy manages to move beyond morality.
Nietzsche and the “aesthetics of character”
This chapter suggests that aesthetic is the way any non-moral ideal of character might be expected to look from within the perspective of morality, narrowly understood. It distinguishes another use of aesthetic in connection with ideals of character, in which it labels either a kind of conception of character Nietzsche did not have, or is simply synonymous with ideals of no distinctively aesthetic variety. The chapter outlines a phenomenon, thoug…
Why would master morality surrender its power?
This chapter discusses the master-slave distinction in Nietzsche's analysis; the domestication of culture and the attractions of slave morality; the role of Socrates in Nietzsche's historical picture; and the ambiguities in Nietzsche's account of master and slave morality. Nietzsche's genealogical treatment of traditional moral ideals aims to disturb the pretense of moral purity and the presumption of moral foundations by suggesting a different l…
“Genealogy” and the Genealogy
Among the rich veins of gold running through On the Genealogy of Morality is supposedly the methodologically distinct one of genealogy itself. This chapter presents a general articulation of what a genealogy might be. It discusses some of its consequences. The normative consequences of a given genealogy depend on the particular kind of genealogical account offered. The chapter discusses and rejects the idea that Nietzsche's particular genealogy c…
The relevance of history for moral philosophy
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality occupies an unstable position in philosophical thought: it oscillates between seeming damning and irrelevant. This chapter argues that Nietzsche's aim in the Genealogy is to show that modern morality has systematically broken the connection between perceptions of increased power, and actual increases in power. It introduces the currently dominant interpretation of the Genealogy, which treats the text as es…
Why Nietzsche is still in the morality game
Nietzsche's thought it is necessary to propose the elements of an affirmation of life that is free of theodicy. Nietzsche diagnoses it to genuine life-affirmation need to consider the extraordinarily radical account of life-denial that emerges from the Genealogy. Intense effort has been devoted to reconstructing Nietzsche's portrayal of the values and concepts structured by slave morality and their search for transcendence of time, causality, fat…
On the nobility of Nietzsche’s priests
This chapter aims to make a limited exegetical point about the first essay of On the Genealogy of Morality (GM), and then to trace its consequences for Nietzsche's argument about the historical transformation that produced our current altruistic morality. The textual point is this: the priests who figure importantly in Nietzsche's story are intended to be unambiguous instances of the noble character type; they are not to be understood as slaves, …
Ressentiment and morality
It is widely acknowledged that there is an intimate connection between Nietzsche's ostensibly historical diagnosis of the vicissitudes of ressentiment in the second and third essays of On the Genealogy of Morality and his critique of contemporary European morality. There can be no question but that Nietzsche considers morality as we know it to have its roots, in some way, in the condition of ressentiment. The ressentiment subject's initial suffer…
Nietzsche and the virtues of mature egoism
A major obstacle to reading Nietzsche as a philosopher who has something to offer substantive moral theory is his self-ascriptions as both an immoralist and an egoist. This chapter focuses the discussion on the virtues of mature egoism as portrayed in GM, but Nietzsche's conception of the mature egoist underlies all his central works in ethics. The argument of the chapter has the following general structure. What is needed is a proper understandi…
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality
On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most influential, provocative, and challenging work of ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, fourteen leading philosophers offer fresh insights into many of the work's central questions: How did our dominant values originate and what functions do they really serve? What future does the concept of 'evil' have - and can it be revalued? What sorts of virtues and ideals does Nietzsche advocat…
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Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality
On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most influential, provocative, and challenging work of ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, fourteen leading philosophers offer fresh insights into many of the work's central questions: How did our dominant values originate and what functions do they really serve? What future does the concept of 'evil' have - and can it be revalued? What sorts of virtues and ideals does Nietzsche advocat…
Nietzsche and the “aesthetics of character”
This chapter suggests that aesthetic is the way any non-moral ideal of character might be expected to look from within the perspective of morality, narrowly understood. It distinguishes another use of aesthetic in connection with ideals of character, in which it labels either a kind of conception of character Nietzsche did not have, or is simply synonymous with ideals of no distinctively aesthetic variety. The chapter outlines a phenomenon, thoug…
Why would master morality surrender its power?
This chapter discusses the master-slave distinction in Nietzsche's analysis; the domestication of culture and the attractions of slave morality; the role of Socrates in Nietzsche's historical picture; and the ambiguities in Nietzsche's account of master and slave morality. Nietzsche's genealogical treatment of traditional moral ideals aims to disturb the pretense of moral purity and the presumption of moral foundations by suggesting a different l…
“Genealogy” and the Genealogy
Among the rich veins of gold running through On the Genealogy of Morality is supposedly the methodologically distinct one of genealogy itself. This chapter presents a general articulation of what a genealogy might be. It discusses some of its consequences. The normative consequences of a given genealogy depend on the particular kind of genealogical account offered. The chapter discusses and rejects the idea that Nietzsche's particular genealogy c…
The relevance of history for moral philosophy
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality occupies an unstable position in philosophical thought: it oscillates between seeming damning and irrelevant. This chapter argues that Nietzsche's aim in the Genealogy is to show that modern morality has systematically broken the connection between perceptions of increased power, and actual increases in power. It introduces the currently dominant interpretation of the Genealogy, which treats the text as es…
Why Nietzsche is still in the morality game
Nietzsche's thought it is necessary to propose the elements of an affirmation of life that is free of theodicy. Nietzsche diagnoses it to genuine life-affirmation need to consider the extraordinarily radical account of life-denial that emerges from the Genealogy. Intense effort has been devoted to reconstructing Nietzsche's portrayal of the values and concepts structured by slave morality and their search for transcendence of time, causality, fat…
On the nobility of Nietzsche’s priests
This chapter aims to make a limited exegetical point about the first essay of On the Genealogy of Morality (GM), and then to trace its consequences for Nietzsche's argument about the historical transformation that produced our current altruistic morality. The textual point is this: the priests who figure importantly in Nietzsche's story are intended to be unambiguous instances of the noble character type; they are not to be understood as slaves, …
Ressentiment and morality
It is widely acknowledged that there is an intimate connection between Nietzsche's ostensibly historical diagnosis of the vicissitudes of ressentiment in the second and third essays of On the Genealogy of Morality and his critique of contemporary European morality. There can be no question but that Nietzsche considers morality as we know it to have its roots, in some way, in the condition of ressentiment. The ressentiment subject's initial suffer…
Nietzsche and the virtues of mature egoism
A major obstacle to reading Nietzsche as a philosopher who has something to offer substantive moral theory is his self-ascriptions as both an immoralist and an egoist. This chapter focuses the discussion on the virtues of mature egoism as portrayed in GM, but Nietzsche's conception of the mature egoist underlies all his central works in ethics. The argument of the chapter has the following general structure. What is needed is a proper understandi…