Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Library of the School of Science

2024-04-11

2024

STAMATIOU STAVROS

Στέλιος Βιρβιδάκης, Καθηγητής, τμήμα Ιστορίας και Φιλοσοφίας της Επιστήμης, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών

Ο Νίτσε και η γενεαλογία της ηθικής- Μία ερμηνεία εστιασμένη στο 1ο δοκίμιο του έργου "Zur Genealogie der Moral" του Φρίντριχ Νίτσε

Greek

Nietzsche and the Genealogy of Morals - An Interpretation Focused on 1st Essay of Fr. Nietzsche's "Zur Genealogie der Moral"

This paper focuses on the 1st essay of the "Genealogy of Morals" by Fr. Nietzsche, entitled "Gut und Böse-Gut und Schlecht". The goal is to analyze the main ideas of the essay in question. Before analyzing the first essay, however, it was deemed necessary to explore genealogy itself as a method of examining morality. This is the subject of the 1st Chapter. In this chapter an attempt is made to understand Nietzsche's genealogy as a psychological and historical method of moral research. In the 2nd chapter, entering into the main subject, we analyze the first essay of the Genealogy: we will see that in this essay we have essentially a practical application of the genealogical method, revealing certain facts about the origin and true nature of the ages dominant Judeo-Christian morality, the “morality of the slave”. This morality consists of the "good-evil" ("gut-böse") dichotomy, in which certain practices and behaviors, such as pity, altruism and equality, are evaluated as good. In the 3rd and final chapter, we will see that Nietzsche's entire genealogical work in the first essay is not value-neutral, but determined by a basic moral-normative principle, according to which human excellence is what should be saved and pursued. The knowledge offered by genealogical practice in the first essay is aimed, as we shall see, almost entirely at the service of this normative principle.

Science

Philosophy - Psychology

Nietzsche, Genealogy, Judeo-Christian morality, slave morality-master morality, excellence, nihilism

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