A review by tcande1aria
On the Genealogy of Morals, by Friedrich Nietzsche
3.0
This one was painful. Nietzsche called it early on when he said this might be a tough read for those not familiar with his other works and later on where, more than once, he asks the reader if they're lost. At that point I raised my hand!
That being said, I think this was a good one for me to read and it didn't all go over my head. There were some good discussion points and he brought out some good quandaries to think on, including my own personal views of good and bad and what those are rooted in.
There is also a lot of this book that just doesn't seem necessary in today's world where our scope of understanding and diversity isn't as limited as Nietzsche's was. Some things I read and put down to him saying it because of the time in which this book was written.
That being said, I think this was a good one for me to read and it didn't all go over my head. There were some good discussion points and he brought out some good quandaries to think on, including my own personal views of good and bad and what those are rooted in.
There is also a lot of this book that just doesn't seem necessary in today's world where our scope of understanding and diversity isn't as limited as Nietzsche's was. Some things I read and put down to him saying it because of the time in which this book was written.