XXXX. Abolish God, Abolish Guilt? As more sophisticated societies developed from primitive tribes, the sense of indebtedness to their gods c...

XXXIV. Primordial Humanity Nietzsche’s “tentative expression” of his “hypothesis” concerning the origins of guilt is given beginning in Sect...

XXXIII. Guilt and Punishment The account of the origins of “freedom” and “responsibility” marks the end of the first essay. The aim of the S...

XXXII. The Origin of “Freedom” and “Responsibility” The attributes of strength and weakness are natural, as are all the acts, which are perf...

XXXI. The Man of Nobility and the Man of Rancor The values of the noble man and the man of rancor work in opposite ways. The values of the n...

XXX. The Slave-Revolt in Morality When the priestly caste splits off from the aristocratic, there exists potential for conflict. The priests...

XXIX. The Etymology of ‘Good’ and ‘Bad” From the point of view of etymology (the study of the origin of words), one can obtain an insight in...

XXVIII. Goodness and Utility The first mistake of the English psychologists was to misunderstand the origin of the concept of “good” in util...

XXVII. The Unhistorical Deduction of the Concept of “Good” For all their good spirits, the English psychologists failed in their attempt to ...

XXVI. The English Psychologists Nietzsche begins the first essay by considering the case of the “English psychologists,” who attempt to expl...