Genealogy of Morals

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The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Genealogy of Morals

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The common man Morality

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Genealogy of Morals

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Philosophical literature

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German

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift [On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic]. Leipzig: Verlag von C. G. Neumann, 1887, essay 1.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morals, translated by Michael A. Scarpitti. Penguin Classics, 2014, essay 1.

The broad effects which can obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but dos not make him "better."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Genealogy of Morals

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Punishment

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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Genealogy of Morals

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Philosophical literature

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German

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift [On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic]. Leipzig: Verlag von C. G. Neumann, 1887, essay 2.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morals, translated by Michael A. Scarpitti. Penguin Classics, 2014, essay 2.