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• Bad Conscience

  Nietzsche's name (schlechtes Gewissen) for the "deep sickness" produced when the outward-discharging instincts of "wild, free, roaming" humans were blocked by the violently-imposed state and forced to turn against the self — the central hy…

• Genealogy

  The method Nietzsche names and practices in On the Genealogy of Morality — a critical history of the descent (Herkunft) of moral values that asks not "are they true?" but "where did they come from, and what are they worth for life?" Its wa…

• Guilt and Debt

  Nietzsche's genealogical thesis, from the Second Essay of On the Genealogy of Morality, that the moral concept of guilt (Schuld) descends from the material concept of debt (Schulden) — the German pun is the argument's pivot. "Have these pr…

• Master and Slave Morality

  Nietzsche's typology of two value-creating types, given its locus classicus in Beyond Good and Evil §260: "There is master-morality and slave-morality." Master morality arises "under a dominating type" that feels itself "value-determining……

• Michel Foucault

  French philosopher and historian of systems of thought. Author of Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique (1961), Naissance de la clinique (1963), Raymond Roussel (1963), Les Mots et les choses (1966), L'Archéologie du sa…

• Nascent State (état naissant)

  Merleau-Ponty's recurring formulation in Phenomenology of Perception for the moment-just-before-objectification — the layer at which sense, perception, time, language, or freedom is being born without yet having been constituted as an obje…

• On the Genealogy of Morality Friedrich Nietzsche, 2014

  Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche · Year: 1887 · Type: book (polemic — Eine Streitschrift)

• Ressentiment

  Nietzsche's name (kept in French, untranslated, throughout On the Genealogy of Morality) for the creative, value-positing reaction of the impotent — the psychological engine of the slave revolt in morality. Its definition is the hinge of t…

• The Play-Element (Huizinga)

  Johan Huizinga's concept (from Homo Ludens, 1938), as deployed by Chouraqui in "Europe as the Crisis of Play" (2025): play is the primary, unitary "mental continuum" out of which civilization gradually carves the separated modes of playful…

• The Sovereign Individual

  The figure introduced at GM II.2 as the "ripest fruit" of the long prehistoric labor of the "morality of custom": "the sovereign individual, like only unto himself, the autonomous, supermoral individual who has liberated himself from the m…