Published in 1887, On the Genealogy of Morals is one of Friedrich Nietzsche’s most penetrating investigations into the origins and development of morality. Composed of three interconnected essays, the work challenges the assumption that moral values are timeless or universally given. Instead, Nietzsche traces their historical formation, exposing the social forces, struggles, and psychological motives that lie behind concepts such as good, evil, guilt, punishment, and virtue. At the heart of Nietzsche’s analysis is the conflict between two radically different systems of valuation. Aristocratic morality, born among the powerful, celebrates strength, nobility, and excellence through the distinction between “good” and “bad.” Against it stands what Nietzsche calls “slave morality,” a value system that emerges from resentment and reverses the values of the powerful, transforming weakness into virtue and strength into evil. His provocative examination of Judaism and Christianity reveals how this profound reversal reshaped the moral landscape of Western civilization. More than a history of moral ideas, On the Genealogy of Morals is a challenge to the foundations upon which those ideas rest. Nietzsche invites readers to look beyond inherited judgments and ask not simply whether a value is considered good or evil, but where it came from, whose interests it serves, and what kind of life it promotes. Fierce, unsettling, and uncompromising, this work remains an essential text for anyone seeking to understand morality, power, resentment, and the forces that shape human values.
| Penulis | : | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
|---|---|---|
| Penerbit | : | basabasi |
| Tahun terbit | : | 2026 |
| ISBN | : | - |
| Halaman | : | 198 |
