La Genealogia de la Moral

by Friedrich Nietzsche

La genealogía de la moral es la obra más sombría y cruel de Friedrich Nietzsche. Su primer tratado se ocupa de la contraposición entre los conceptos de «bueno» y «malo», así como de la posterior transformación de su significado por obra de la interpretación judeo-cristiana. El segundo tratado analiza la mala conciencia, cuya causa en épocas primitivas era la culpa entendida no en el sentido de responsabilidad moral, sino como equivalente a una deuda material. La última parte, que anuncia el nuevo ideal del superhombre, analiza el significado del ascetismo.

Genres: Philosophy

Paperback

Published October 15, 2011

About the author

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24, but resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and probably vascular dementia. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Nietzsche died in 1900, after experiencing pneumonia and multiple strokes.
Nietzsche's work spans philosophical polemics, poetry, cultural criticism, and fiction while displaying a fondness for aphorism and irony. Prominent elements of his philosophy include his radical critique of truth in favour of perspectivism; a genealogical critique of religion and Christian morality and a related theory of master–slave morality; the aesthetic affirmation of life in response to both the "death of God" and the profound crisis of nihilism; the notion of Apollonian and Dionysian forces; and a characterisation of the human subject as the expression of competing wills, collectively understood as the will to power. He also developed influential concepts such as the Übermensch and his doctrine of eternal return. In his later work, he became increasingly preoccupied with the creative powers of the individual to overcome cultural and moral mores in pursuit of new values and aesthetic health. His body of work touched a wide range of topics, including art, philology, history, music, religion, tragedy, culture, and science, and drew inspiration from Greek tragedy as well as figures such as Zoroaster, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Wagner, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
After his death, Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth became the curator and editor of his manuscripts. She edited his unpublished writings to fit her German ultranationalist ideology, often contradicting or obfuscating Nietzsche's stated opinions, which were explicitly opposed to antisemitism and nationalism. Through her published editions, Nietzsche's work became associated with fascism and Nazism. 20th-century scholars such as Walter Kaufmann, R.J. Hollingdale, and Georges Bataille defended Nietzsche against this interpretation, and corrected editions of his writings were soon made available. Nietzsche's thought enjoyed renewed popularity in the 1960s and his ideas have since had a profound impact on 20th- and early 21st-century thinkers across philosophy—especially in schools of continental philosophy such as existentialism, postmodernism, and post-structuralism—as well as art, literature, music, poetry, politics, and popular culture.

Reviews

[Alex Romero · Rating 5 out of 5]

libro complejísimo

[Diego Rodríguez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Libro para hombres-vaca. Para rumiadores. Para aquellos dispuestos a pelearse e incomodarse con un texto.
Nietzsche tiene un estilo particular, que en esta obra se torna particularmente sombrío. Realiza el diagnóstico terrible de la sociedad europea moderna y su fatal enfermedad: el ascetismo.
En ese emocionante discurso de El gran dictador, decía Chaplin: "Reason has poisoned men souls". Esta frase podría ser un buen anuncio de lo que este libro examina, a saber, el desarrollo de la mala conciencia (fruto de una moral judeocristiana, vil y venenosa) en el hombre de nuestro tiempo, quizá aún no tan distinto en su enfermedad que aquel que diagnosticaba Nietzsche.
Libro duro y provocador que no deja lugar a la indiferencia. Ideas potentes, peligrosas y necesarias (para bien y para mal).

[Wookiee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nosotros los que conocemos somos desconocidos para nosotros, nosotros mismos somos desconocidos para nosotros mismos: esto tiene un buen fundamento. No nos hemos buscado nunca, -¿cómo iba a suceder que un día nos encontrásemos? Con razón se ha dicho: «Donde está vuestro tesoro, allí está vuestro corazón»

Título original: Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift, Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887
Traducción: Andrés Sánchez Pascual

[Pnx]

deuda/culpa = cáncer del mundo

[Adrian R · Rating 4 out of 5]

El primer y segundo tratado son patrimonio intangible de la humanidad. El tercero es, simplemente, bazofia. Lectura obligatoria.

[Javier Sánchez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Maldigo el día en el que empecé el tfg

[Juanes · Rating 5 out of 5]

"el hombre prefiere creer en la nada antes que no creer en nada "

[Nanerto_06 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Scary, cruel and even dangerous, but it makes many, many good points, some of which are straight up mind-blowing. I think one can disagree with morals being and having to be the way this book says, but that's not incompatible with agreeing on their origin.
Also Nietzsche's way of writing here is flawless, due to both how words are elegantly picked and used, and how its expression is passionate and personal in a way philosophers are afraid to use.

[Adrián P. C. · Rating 4 out of 5]

⭐⭐⭐⭐Really Good.