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On the Genealogy of Morality
Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche · Year: 1887 · Type: book (polemic — Eine Streitschrift)
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The Ascetic Ideal
The subject of the Third Essay of On the Genealogy of Morality, and Nietzsche's name for the value-system that treats this life — "nature, world, the whole sphere of becoming and of transitoriness" — as a wrong path to be denied in favor o…
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The Ascetic Priest
The central figure of the Third Essay of On the Genealogy of Morality — the incarnate agent of the ascetic-ideal, "the foreordained savior, shepherd and advocate of the sick herd" (GM III.15). His defining function is given in a single for…
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The Will to Truth
Nietzsche's name for the unconditional drive to truth "at any price" — and, in the Third Essay of On the Genealogy of Morality, the unexpected core of the very ascetic-ideal that modern science and atheism imagine themselves to oppose. Bey…