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oops sorry i fell asleep :> i primarily had Raymond Geuss’ “Nietzsche and Genealogy” in mind
This kind of pedigree, then, has five main characteristics: 2 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