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7 - “An Animal That May Make Promises” (GM II, 1–3)

from II - Philosophical Themes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2021

Otfried Höffe
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University of Tuebingen
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The electrifying opening question in the second essay of Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals can be read as an aphorism as it is defined in the preface, namely, as something that requires creative deciphering. For it contains hooks and snares in which a merely superficial reading quickly becomes entangled. Furthermore, one would like to perceive its connection with the first treatise, with its oppositions of Good–Bad and Good–Evil, or between the master morality and slave morality.

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Print publication year: 2021

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