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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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 February 2025. American philosopher and legal scholar (born 1963) Brian Leiter Born 1963 (age 61–62) New York City, U.S. Alma mater Princeton University (BA) University of Michigan (JD, PhD) Era Contemporary philosophy Region Western philosophy School Continental philosophy Institutions University ...
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 ...
[With Ken Gemes] 'Naturalism and Value in Nietzsche: a Review of Brian Leiter, Nietzsche on Morality’, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming). Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs, ed. Bernard Williams, trans. Josefine Nauckhoff, poems trans. AdrianDel Caro, in Notre ...
His research interests include phenomenology, philosophy of value, philosophy of mind, Husserl, Nietzsche. [1] According to Brian Leiter, he has challenged the view that libertarian views of free will and moral responsibility are central to Western religious, moral, and cultural traditions. [2]
The 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is known as a critic of Judeo-Christian morality and religions in general. One of the arguments he raised against the truthfulness of these doctrines is that they are based upon the concept of free will, which, in his opinion, does not exist. [1] [2]
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]
Nietzsche criticized Rée's The Origin of the Moral Sensations in the preface to On the Genealogy of Morals, writing that "Perhaps I have never read anything to which I would have said to myself No, proposition by proposition, conclusion by conclusion, to the extent that I did to this book; yet quite without ill-humour or impatience." [2]