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On the Genealogy of Morals

A Polemic

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On the Genealogy of Morals

By: Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrated by: Duncan Steen
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This is one of the most accessible of Nietzsche's works. It was published in 1887, a year after Beyond Good and Evil, and he intended it to be a continuation of the investigation into the theme of morality. In the first work, Nietzsche attacked the notion of morality as nothing more than institutionalized weakness, and he criticized past philosophers for their unquestioning acceptance of moral precepts. In On the Genealogy of Morals, subtitled "A Polemic", Nietzsche furthers his pursuit of a clarity that is less tainted by imposed prejudices. He looks at the way attitudes towards 'morality' evolved and the way congenital ideas of morality were heavily colored by the Judaic and Christian traditions.

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Public Domain (P)2013 Naxos AudioBooks Essays Ethics & Morality Philosophy Morality Nonfiction
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just amazing. its truly a remarkable insight into human psychology. I can't praise it enough

eye opening

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This is without a doubt one of Nietzsche's best works. Nowhere else has one of the most fundamental aspects of human experience, morality, been questioned so thoroughly - and as always Nietzsche writes in an impassioned, bold and highly readable style.

Unfortunately, I find Duncan Steen's voice rather bland, and that it often fails to get across the high emotion of Nietzsche's writing. This reading is much better than his reading of The Birth of Tragedy, which was almost unlistenable, but the mind still tends to wander. Additionally, he's not very good at distinguishing the passages in parentheses from the main text, which can leave a listener very confused: I kept having to refer to a physical copy of the text to understand what was being said.

Overall though, definitely worth listening to, as Steen isn't terrible and the text is superb.

Should be required reading in all schools

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Good narration. Much more interesting when Neitzch is read with a bit of energy, rather than a mononotomo drone.

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Not for the feint hearted but this philosopher smashes into the fundamental origins of our sacred truths and morals with the same hammer wielded in Twilight of the idols. He does not want agreement or appeasements but thinking beings who take responsibility for what they are and who they can become unshackled from 2 millennia of slave mentality! Enjoy 😊

Should be required reading for maturing adults

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SO GOOD. Nietzsche lays out slave morality, really sizes up well to a lot of the issues we have in ethics today

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