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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…
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Beyond Good and Evil
Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche · Year: 1886 (this edition 2014) · Type: book
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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…
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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…
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Herd Morality
Nietzsche's name for the morality of the herd animal — the valuation that serves the preservation of the community by leveling its members, prizing obedience, compassion, and equality, and treating itself as morality as such. The central t…
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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……
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On the Genealogy of Morality
Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche · Year: 1887 · Type: book (polemic — Eine Streitschrift)
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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…
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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 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…