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Aaron Ridley explores Nietzsche's mature ethical thought as expressed in his masterpiece __On the Genealogy of Morals__. Taking seriously the use that Nietzsche makes of human types, Ridley arranges his book thematically around the six characters who loom largest in that work—the slave, the priest, the philosopher, the artist, the scientist, and the noble. By elucidating what the __Genealogy__ says about these figures, he achieves a persuasive new assessment of Nietzsche's ethics. Ridley's intellectually supple interpretation reveals Nietzsche's ethical position to be deeper and more interesting than is often supposed: the relation, for instance, between Nietzsche's ideal of the noble and the ascetic or priestly conscience does not emerge as a stark opposition but as a rich interplay between the tensions inherent in each. Equally, he shows that certain under-appreciated confusions in Nietzsche's thought reveal much about the positive aspects of the philosopher's moral vision. The only book devoted entirely to the __Genealogy__, __Nietzsche's Conscience__ offers a sympathetic but tough-minded critical reading of the philosopher's most important work. Delivered in clear and vigorous

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Author

Ridley, Aaron

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501729676

Category

nonfiction