On the Genealogy of Morals
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On the Genealogy of Morals
| Full title | On the Genealogy of Morals (Zur Genealogie der Moral) |
|---|---|
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Published | 1887 |
| Pages | 193 |
| Recommended | 3 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Three essays on where moral categories came from — master and slave morality, guilt invented out of debt, the ascetic ideal as a will to nothing — and the founding demonstration of genealogy as a method: asking not whether a value is true but who needed it and what it did for them. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @SpencrGreenberg — named in the thread answering “What non-fiction book taught you the most about how the world (or how humanity or society) really works?”, June 2025. Full list: A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet).
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, March 2026, in the Literature and Societal Critique section.
- University of Austin — assigned in History, Historiography, and the Philosophy of History on its Fall 2025 reading list, as On the Genealogy of Morality. Full curriculum: UATX Fall Reading List.
Connections
- A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Friedrich Nietzsche — the author.
- Morality · Ethics — the subject.
- Debt — The First 5000 Years — Graeber builds directly on the guilt-out-of-debt argument in the second essay.
- UATX Fall Reading List — assigned in the University of Austin’s Fall 2025 History, Historiography, and the Philosophy of History course, where the list titles it On the Genealogy of Morality. Read there for its method rather than its ethics: genealogy as a way of doing history.
- The Idea of History · Myth of the Eternal Return — the other two texts assigned in that same course.
What links here
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