XXV. “On the Genealogy of Morals"One of Nietzsche’s most widely widely-read books is the 1887 The Genealogy of Morals: An Attack. The book consists of three parts, each of which is self-contained, though fairly closely related with the others. The first part, “Good and Evil” ‘Good and Bad’” attempts to document an “inversion” from noble values into Christian values. The second part, “’Guilt’, ‘Bad Conscience,’ and Related Matters’” tries to show how religion originated through the invention of guilt as a form of self-torment. The third part, “What so ascetic Ideals Mean?” purports to explain how humanity, which suffers naturally and apparently for no reason, adopts suffering itself as the reason for its existence.
