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  • Chapter 14 - Une promesse de bonheur? Beauty in the Genealogy

  • Edited by Simon May, King's College London
  • Book:
    Nietzsche's <I>On the Genealogy of Morality</I>
    Published online:
    05 November 2011
    Print publication:
    13 October 2011, pp 309-325

  • Summary

    This chapter tries to make some progress with three interpretive issues and a philosophical question. The first issue concerns section 6 of the Genealogy's third essay. The second issue concerns the relations between what Nietzsche says in GM, III, 6, and what he says at the other two places in the Genealogy where beauty features at all prominently: on the face of it, none of the passages looks as if it has anything to do with the others, and that feels unsatisfactory. The third issue concerns the relation between Nietzsche's remarks about beauty and his more general conception of values and valuing: assuming that the Genealogy is minimally self-consistent. The philosophical question is whether Nietzsche's thoughts about beauty deserve to be taken seriously as a contribution to aesthetics: do they help us to understand what beauty is, or in what sense beauty is a value for us.