On the Genealogy of Morals: Deep Review

Original academic guide to On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche.

• Academic Classics
• 33 min
• Ages 15–99
• 10 chapters

About this audiobook

Nietzsche's explosive genealogy of morality, resentment, guilt, conscience, punishment, ascetic ideals, religion, power, and the psychology of values.

Why it's worth a listen

Present Nietzsche as a diagnostic thinker rather than a slogan machine: brilliant, unsettling, often dangerous, and still unavoidable in moral psychology.

Based on the book by Friedrich Nietzsche, published by Public domain classic

Chapters

1. Introduction and the Scope of Our Review
2. The Historical and Intellectual Context of 1887
3. The Central Problem: The Unexamined Origin of Our Values
4. First Essay: Master Morality, Slave Morality, and the Birth of Ressentiment
5. Second Essay: Guilt, Bad Conscience, and the Psychology of Punishment
6. Third Essay: The Ascetic Ideal and the Will to Nothingness
7. Nietzsche as Diagnostic Psychologist: What Makes Him Brilliant
8. The Shadow of the Will: What is Dangerous, Dated, or Misunderstood
9. How to Read This Book Without Getting Lost
10. Who Should Read This Classic Today