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Nietzsche's The Genealogy Of Morality

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The Genealogy of Morals is a polemic view of morality written by the idiosyncratic German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The first book develops on 3 fundamental concepts. The concept of the Slave Morality, Ressitement, and the Aristocratic Morality. In the First book Nietzsche attempts to show the distinction of Good vs. Evil through genealogy. A genealogy could be comparable to an intricate etymology. A genealogy would be a historical approach to any philosophical question by first determining the origin or source of a word. “What first put me on the right track was this question: what is the true etymological meaning of the various terms for the idea ‘Good” which have been coined in various languages?” (Page 17) Nietzsche does this with …show more content…

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