willow: "oops sorry i fell asleep :> i primarily had Raymond Geuss’ “Nietzsche and Genealogy” in mind"

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willow @dreary.dev

oops sorry i fell asleep :> i primarily had Raymond Geuss’ “Nietzsche and Genealogy” in mind

This kind of pedigree, then, has five main characteristics:
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Nietzsche and genealogy
1. In the interests of a positive valorization of some item
2. the pedigree, starting from a singular origin
3. which is an actual source of that value
4. traces an unbroken line of succession from the origin to that item
s. by a series of steps that preserve whatever value is in question.

'Genealogy' as practiced by Nietzsche differs from the tracing of a pedigree in all five respects. 'Genealogy' is certainly not undertaken with the intention of legitimizing any present per-son, practice, or institution, and won't in general have the effect of enhancing the standing of any contemporary item. As
Morality, culture, and history
far as points 2 and 3 are concerned, gencalogy doesn't characteristically discover a single origin for the object of its investiga-tion. To take the example Nietzsche himself analyzes in greatest detail, Christian morality does not go back to a single instituting activity by a particular person or small group in ancient Pal-estine. The whole point of Genealogy of Morality is that Christian morality results from a conjunction of a number of diverse lines of development: the ressentiment of slaves directed against their

December 14, 2024 at 8:00 AM

willowDec 14, 2024

i think you’d get a kick out of Geuss’ mapping of The Genealogy of Morality lol

Raymond Geuss, Morality, Culture, and History, pg 15