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Chapter 9 - Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality
- By Keith Ansell-Pearson
Edited by Robert Pippin, University of Chicago
Book:

Introductions to Nietzsche

Published online:

05 June 2012

Print publication:

09 February 2012, pp 199-214
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Summary

On the Genealogy of Morality belongs to the late period of Friedrich Nietzsche's writings. For Nietzsche, morality represents a system of errors that one have incorporated into the basic ways of thinking, feeling and living; it is the great symbol of the profound ignorance of ourselves and the world. Nietzsche's polemic challenges the assumptions of standard genealogies. One of the most important events in Western history occurs when the slaves revolt against the masters' form of valuation. Western morality has historically been a struggle between elements that derive from a basic form of valuation derived from 'masters' and one derived from 'slaves'. The sense of 'guilt' has evolved through several momentous and fateful events in history. Nietzsche's political thinking remains a source of difficulty, even embarrassment, because it fails to accord with the standard liberal ways of thinking about politics which have prevailed in the last 200 and more years.