Généalogie de la morale
- Langue:
- anglais
- État:
- Œuvre complète
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- Écrite par l'auteur
- État du texte:
- Texte propre
- Étendue:
- ~59 600 mots · 283 passages
Citer cette œuvre
- APANietzsche. (n.d.). Généalogie de la morale. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/nietzsche/the-genealogy-of-morals
- MLANietzsche. "Généalogie de la morale." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/nietzsche/the-genealogy-of-morals.
- ChicagoNietzsche. Généalogie de la morale. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/nietzsche/the-genealogy-of-morals.
De quoi il s'agit
La Généalogie de la morale (1887) : trois dissertations sur l'origine réelle du bien, de la faute et de l'idéal ascétique.
Contexte et histoire
Son livre le plus systématique et le plus influent sur la philosophie ultérieure : Foucault en a tiré toute la méthode généalogique. La thèse centrale — que « bon » a voulu dire « noble » avant de vouloir dire « désintéressé », et que ce changement est l'œuvre du ressentiment — est discutable, mais la façon de poser la question a tout changé. Traduction anglaise tirée de l'édition complète dirigée par Oscar Levy (1909-1913), celle qui est du domaine public. Elle a plus d'un siècle et cela se voit. L'original est ALLEMAND, et c'est lui qu'il faut citer : le catalogue en contient deux, Also sprach Zarathustra et Der Wille zur Macht ; pour le reste, seule la traduction est ici.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le corpus.
We are unknown, we knowers, ourselves to ourselves: this has its own good reason. We have never searched for ourselves--how should it then come to pass, that we should ever _find_ ourselves? Rightly has it been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." _Our_ treasure is there, where stand the hives of our knowledge. It is to those hives that we are always striving; as born creatures of flight, and as the honey-gatherers of the spirit, we care really in our hearts only for one thing--to bring something "home to the hive!" As far as the rest of life with its so-called "experiences" is concerned, which of us has even sufficient serious interest? or sufficient time? In our dealings with such points of life, we are, I fear, never properly to the point; to be precise, our heart is not there, and certainly not our ear. Rather like one who, delighting in a divine distraction, or sunken in the seas of his own soul, in whose ear the clock has just thundered with all its force its twelve strokes of noon, suddenly wakes up, and asks himself, "What has in point of fact just struck?" so do we at times rub afterwards, as it were, our puzzled ears, and ask in complete astonishment and complete embarrassment, "Through what have we in point of fact just lived?" further, "Who are we in point of fact?" and count, _after they have struck_, as I have explained, all the twelve throbbing beats of the clock of our experience, of our life, of our being--ah!--and count wrong in the endeavour. Of necessity we remain strangers to ourselves, we understand ourselves not, in ourselves we are bound to be mistaken, for of us holds good to all eternity the motto, "Each one is the farthest away from himself"--as far as ourselves are concerned we are not "knowers." 2.…