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"Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality ", In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 12 January 2017. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic, which he published in 1887 towards the end of his working life and in which he considered the price humans have paid, and were still paying, to become civilised.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [ii] (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. [14] He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy.
The Four Great Errors are four mistakes of human reason regarding causal relationships that the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche argues are the basis of all moral and religious propositions. Set forth in his book Twilight of the Idols , first published in 1889, these errors form the contrastive backdrop to his " revaluation of all values ."
Master–slave morality (German: Herren- und Sklavenmoral) is a central theme of Friedrich Nietzsche's works, particularly in the first essay of his book On the Genealogy of Morality. Nietzsche argues that there are two fundamental types of morality : "master morality" and "slave morality", which correspond, respectively, to the dichotomies of ...
Considered one of the founding fathers of existentialism, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was a critic of Christian theology. [2] Arguing that morality itself is a human construct as opposed to the laws of nature, which are inherently morally neutral, Nietzsche divided morality into two types: slave morality and master morality. [3]
According to the Nietzsche scholar Keith Ansell-Pearson, it is the least studied of all of Nietzsche's works. [1] This relative obscurity is mostly due to the greater attention paid to his subsequent writings. [2] In his last original book Ecce Homo, Nietzsche writes that Daybreak was the "book [in which] my campaign against morality begins". [2]
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that Christianity fosters a kind of slave morality which suppresses the desires which are contained in the human will. [8] The Russian Revolution, the Chinese Revolution, and several other modern revolutionary movements have also led to the criticism of Christian ideas.
Nietzsche claims that the Christian religion and its morality are based on imaginary fictions. [9] Nietzsche opposes the Christian concept of God because: [10] God degenerated into the contradiction of life. Instead of being its transfiguration and eternal Yea! In him war is declared on life, on nature, on the will to live!