Part II, Paper 4 · European Philosophy from Kant
Nietzsche: Morality (a): Genealogy
Does Nietzsche’s genealogical method directly undermine moral values?
Essay of no more than 2,500 words.
Primary sources
- Nietzsche, Friedrich 1887 [2007]. On the Genealogy of Morality, trans. Carol Diethe, ed. K. Ansell-Pearson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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- May, Simon 1999. Chapter 4 in Nietzsche’s Ethics and his War on “Morality”. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Publisher
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