TY - BOOK AU - Nietzsche,Friedrich Wilhelm AU - Smith,Douglas TI - On the genealogy of morals: a polemic : by way of clarification and supplement to my last book, Beyond good and evil T2 - The world's classics SN - 9780191561023 AV - B3313.Z73 N5413 1996 U1 - 170 23 PY - 1996/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Ethics KW - PHILOSOPHY KW - Social KW - bisacsh KW - Ethics & Moral Philosophy KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (page xxxiv) and index; Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Translation; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Friedrich Nietzsche; ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORAL; Explanatory Notes; Index N2 - On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the 4entral values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures. The result is a book which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both ethicsand interpretation. Nietzsche questions moral certainties by showing that religion and science have no claim to absolute trut UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=12320 ER -