On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
Friedrich Nietzsche
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On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic is an 1887 book by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It consists of a preface and three interrelated treatises that expand and follow through on concepts that Nietzsche outlined in Beyond Good and Evil (1886). The three treatises trace episodes in the evolution of moral concepts confronting the "moral prejudices" of Christian morality.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879. He afterward lived as an independent writer, spending much of his life in relative solitude and financial insecurity while moving between Switzerland, Italy, and southern France in search of climates that might alleviate his condition, and in...